US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOBIS on Jan. 13 for "Electro-mechanical brake device and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,187, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electro-mechanical brake device and method of controlling the same" was invented by Jong Sung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an electro-mechanical brake device, includes: switching a central electronic control unit (ECU) to an awake mode based on a wake-up signal; transmitting a signal such that a wheel ECU is switched from a sleep mode to the awake mode; when a braking input is detected, supplying a current to a motor mounted on an electro-mechanical brake (EMB) using current control to generate a bra...