US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 10 for "Methods and apparatus to determine brake system health" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,396, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to determine brake system health" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Timilehin Ogunbekun (Livonia, Mich.), Ryan O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.), David Brian Glickman (Southfield, Mich.) and Kenneth Patrick McHugh (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to determine brake pad wear are disclosed herein. An example vehicle disclosed herein includes a brake, memory, and a processor to execute instructions to detect the vehicle is in operation ...