ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,880, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Vacuum-boosted braking system having redundancy" was invented by Thorsten Ullrich (Gernsheim, Germany), Tibor Toth (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Martin Kraft (Gravenwiesbach, Germany), Manfred Liebl (Karlskron, Germany), Bernd Zielke (Schrobenhausen, Germany), Stefan Daffner (Hepberg, Germany) and Andreea Cenuse (Lippertshofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic braking system has a vacuum brake booster, an ESC system with a hydraulic pump for generating braking force in a wheel-specific manner in a plurality of whee...