ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,611, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Electrical parking brake system and control method thereof" was invented by Wei Kang (Yantai, China), Young Jin Jo (Suwon-Si, South Korea) and Maolin Qu (Yantai, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electrical parking brake system and a control method thereof, the electrical parking brake system includes: a vehicle control unit electrically connected to a shift by wire of a vehicle, and configured to receive a shift command entered by a driver from the shift by wire, and periodically transmitting a parking request...