ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,873, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
"Electromechanical parking brake system having parking brake locking mechanism" was invented by Alex Keit (Bay City, Mich.), Jeff Lauman (Bay City, Mich.) and Troy Strieter (Bay City, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During an operation of applying a parking brake, when sufficient brake clamping force is applied by a brake actuator, a parking lock actuator having a pin is energized to cause the pin to be moved toward a strut so that the strut is engaged with one of notches of a rotatable part operably connected with the brake actuator in order to p...