ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,340, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating an axial piston machine in which a zero case is taken into account" was invented by Alex Glavak (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Benjamin Rosenbaum (Arnsberg, Germany), Joerg Spang (Neu-Ulm, Germany) and Ulrich Schill (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for operating an axial piston machine whose displacement volume is continuously adjustable using a double-acting control cylinder having two oppositely acting control chambers. The method includes providing a corresponding axial piston machine. An electrically adjustable press...