ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,623, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Integrated electro-hydraulic unit" was invented by Enrique Busquets (Greer, S.C.) and Andreas Guender (Lohr am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated electro-hydraulic unit including an electric machine having a stator and a rotor. The integrated electro-hydraulic unit includes a hydraulic machine having a shaft configured to rotate around a central axis and a cylinder block coupled to the shaft. The cylinder block includes a plurality of bores receiving a plurality of pistons. The cylinder block is configured to rotate about the centra...