ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,215, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"System and method for automatically detecting a dragging brake" was invented by Charles K Evans (Willis, Mich.) and John C. Cerone (Belleville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for a brake assembly of a vehicle may include a temperature sensor disposed proximate to the brake assembly to measure an actual temperature of the brake assembly, a controller operably coupled to the temperature sensor and comprising a thermal model, the controller being configured to determine a predicted temperature of the brake assembly using the ...