ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,942, issued on July 29, was assigned to Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Inc. (Milwaukee).
"Brake application detection" was invented by Tim Monahan (Brookfield, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting a brake event of a vehicle. One system includes an electronic control unit configured to receive a plurality of vehicle signal inputs, wherein the plurality of vehicle signal inputs includes an engine torque, and estimate a wheel torque of a rear wheel of the vehicle based on one or more of the plurality of vehicle signal inputs. The electronic control unit is also configured to determine a difference between the...