US Patent Issued to AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY on July 8 for "Method of damage prediction for electric park brake and adaptation thereof" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,145, issued on July 8, was assigned to AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method of damage prediction for electric park brake and adaptation thereof" was invented by George Douglas Ritter (Royal Oak, Mich.), Gang Lou (Rochester, Mich.) and Eric J. Roszman (Ovid, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining the cumulative damage of a brake system, the method comprising: (a) estimating or measuring one or more brake forces based upon one or more parameters; (b) determining a cycle for each of the brake forces and associating each brake force with the determined cycle; and (c) determining a cumulative damage of the...