US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Method for holding a motor vehicle in place and electrically actuated brake" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,102, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for holding a motor vehicle in place and electrically actuated brake" was invented by Jurgen Bohm (Oberneisen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for holding a motor vehicle by means of an electrically actuated brake comprises applying the brake until a target force is reached. For holding purposes, a motor torque is reduced by applying a negative preset value for a target angular velocity for a motor torque of an electric actuator of the brake."

The patent was filed on Nov. 4, 2021, under Applicat...