US Patent Issued to AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY on June 17 for "Method for controlling an electromechanical brake system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,608, issued on June 17, was assigned to AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for controlling an electromechanical brake system" was invented by George Douglas Ritter (Pleasant Ridge, Mich.), Keqin Xu (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Jason Sun (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an electromechanical brake system. The method comprises measuring a voltage of a motor, measuring a current of the motor, and estimating a position of a component of the electromechanical brake system based on the voltage and the current. The method comprises estimating a force imposed by the component based...