ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,168,428, issued on Dec. 17, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Electric parking brake" was invented by Woochul Lim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Joon-kyu Song (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Daejune Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein an electric parking brake includes a pair of pressing portions provided in a caliper housing to convert rotational motion into linear motion to press a brake pad; an actuator configured to transmit power to the pair of pressing portions; and a load control portion provided rotatably between the pair of pressing portions and the actuator, the l...