ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,045, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Brake system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Thorsten Ullrich (Gernsheim, Germany), Robert Bachmann (Alzenau, Germany), Martin Baechle (Kelkheim, Germany) and Roman Buchler (Frankfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake system for a motor vehicle includes an electrohydraulic partial brake system with hydraulically actuated wheel brakes and an electromechanical partial brake system with electromechanically actuated wheel brakes. The brake system includes two control units and two energy supplies which are in...