ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,324, issued on July 22, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Brake system with noise-optimized valve control" was invented by Anne Seidel (Bad Homburg v. d. Hohe, Germany), Holger Kollmann (Rodgau, Germany) and Christian Courth (Frankfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake system for a motor vehicle comprises a hydraulic line system with at least one normally closed hydraulic valve, wherein a final stage is provided for electrically actuating the at least one hydraulic valve. To minimize noise emissions, the final stage is a final stage with analog control and a computing unit is...