US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOBIS on May 20 for "Electro-mechanical brake and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,448, issued on May 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOBIS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electro-mechanical brake and control method thereof" was invented by Dong Hwan Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an electro-mechanical brake including a piston configured to push a brake pad towards a wheel disc by driving a motor, the electro-mechanical brake comprising: a position detection unit that detects the position of the piston; a current detection unit that detects the value of current applied to the motor; and a contact point calculation unit that calculates a contact point, which is...