ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,112, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Brake disk with protrusions" was invented by Hatem Shahin (Pfaffenhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is aimed at solving issues of pad suction and drag torque, which occur during driving in disk brake systems. The invention relates to a brake disk for a disk brake system, having at least one friction surface, which is at least sectionally delimited by at least one protrusion, protruding from the at least one friction surface, at an outer circumferential side and/or at an inner circumferential side of the at least one frictio...