ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,963, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).
"Braking system having a redundant parking brake function" was invented by Martin Brenn (Mainz, Germany), Roman Buchler (Frankfurt, Germany) and Thorsten Ullrich (Gernsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking system for a motor vehicle has a plurality of hydraulic brake units for braking each braking one wheel of the motor vehicle and a first electric parking brake actuator for braking a first wheel and a second electric parking brake actuator for braking a second wheel. A first control device comprises a first hydrau...