ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,054, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Astemo Netherlands B.V. (Zaltbommel, Netherlands).
"Fail operational electric brake system" was invented by Bart Oosthoek (Geldrop, Netherlands) and Asen-Antonov Marinov (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake control unit is provided comprising a primary control branch, a backup control branch, and mode control utilities, wherein the mode control utilities are configured to select in accordance with integrity diagnostic indications an operational mode of the brake control unit from a plurality of potential operational modes comprising at least a normal operational mode a...