ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,612, issued on June 17, was assigned to Brembo S.p.A. (Bergamo, Italy).

"Method for controlling a force representative of a parking braking of a vehicle and system thereof" was invented by Andrea Butti (Curno, Italy), Corrado Manzoni (Curno, Italy), Stefano Dossi (Curno, Italy), Alfonso Tarantini (Curno, Italy) and Luca Cappelletti (Curno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a force representative of a parking braking of a vehicle, having the steps of: determining, by a data processing unit, a target value of a force representative of a parking braking of the vehicle to be applied, by a first brake caliper, ...