ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,143, issued on July 8, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Method for operating a brake system with an integrated parking brake, and brake system" was invented by Aleksandar Stanojkovski (Kleinostheim, Germany), Serge Biegler (Darmstadt, Germany) and Michael Wintzer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a brake system, which comprises hydraulically actuatable wheel brakes with brake linings; a brake fluid reservoir; a master brake cylinder; a pressure supply device with a pressure piston that can be moved into a pressure chamber; an integrated parki...