ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,253, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Electromechanical brake device" was invented by Johann Jungbecker (Badenheim, Germany), Andreas Kircher (Darmstadt, Germany), Andreas Schirling (Darmstadt, Germany), Peter Schack (Seligenstadt, Germany), Paul Linhoff (Neu-Anspach, Germany), Marco Besier (Bad Schwalbach, Germany) and Jurgen Bohm (Oberneisen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical brake device has a brake caliper and a pressure piston mounted in the brake caliper such that it can move in a clamping direction, wherein the brake device has an electr...