US Patent Issued to BENDIX COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS on Oct. 7 for "Redundant parking brake apparatus for a vehicle and method of operating the same" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,677, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BENDIX COMMERCIAL VEHICLE SYSTEMS LLC (Avon, Ohio).

"Redundant parking brake apparatus for a vehicle and method of operating the same" was invented by Thomas J. Hayes (Lakewood, Ohio) and Jeswanth Samayamantula (Avon Lake, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redundant parking brake apparatus is provided for a vehicle having components of a parking brake system. The redundant parking brake apparatus comprises a first parking brake controller arranged to (i) monitor a first signal indicative of a request to apply parking brakes of the vehicle, and (ii) provide one or more control signals to be ap...