ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,983, issued on March 25, was assigned to MetisMotion GmbH (Munich).

"Hydraulic transmission unit for an actuator" was invented by Georg Bachmaier (Munich), Matthias Gerlich (Munich), Takeru Nemoto (Munich) and Wolfgang Zoels (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a hydraulic transmission unit for an actuator, which hydraulic transmission unit can be filled with a hydraulic fluid and has a first and a second chamber which are hydraulically interconnected and of which one is designed as a drive chamber and the other one is designed as an output chamber. At least in the first chamber, a piston is arranged movab...