US Patent Issued to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems on Sept. 30 for "Multi-circuit braking system for brake blending on an electric driveline equipped with pneumatic control" (Ohio, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,957, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC (Avon, Ohio).

"Multi-circuit braking system for brake blending on an electric driveline equipped with pneumatic control" was invented by William Plow (Avon, Ohio), Randy J. Salvatora (Columbia Station, Ohio), Jeremy Beaulieu (High Point, N.C.) and John V. Ripley (Elyria, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake controller determines if an amount of regenerative braking needed to achieve a requested deceleration will exceed a driveline capability of a tractor. If it will, the brake controller redistributes some of the requested deceleration to a braking...