ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,349, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ICAN COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electro-hydraulic actuator and brake device" was invented by Toshishige Kasuga (Tokyo), Masao Umezawa (Tokyo) and Takahiro Yasunaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electro-hydraulic actuator includes a pump powered by a motor, a hydraulic actuator biased to a first state that reciprocates between the first state and a second state, a reservoir, and a hydraulic circuit. The hydraulic circuit includes a pressurizing flow path that supplies fluid from the pump to the hydraulic actuator, a discharge flow path that discharges fluid from the hydraulic actuator to ...