ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,406, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Motors Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Braking control system and method for vehicle" was invented by Hee Jin Cho (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking control system and method for a vehicle are configured to calculate a braking force of front and rear wheels using a wheel slip ratio of the front and rear wheels and a road surface friction coefficient and then accurately estimate and calculate a disk temperature of the front and rear wheels using a predetermined estimation formula from the calculated braking force, and co...