ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,485, issued on July 15, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

"Electro-mechanical brake system and method for operating same" was invented by Gyunghun Sim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jaehoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electro-mechanical brake system and a method of operating the same including: a pair of pad plates disposed on both sides of a disk rotating together with a wheel; a piston configured to allow the pad plates to come in close contact with or to be separated from the disk; a first motor and a second motor configured to operate independently from each ot...