ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,691, issued on March 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Brake system" was invented by Eun Sik Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea) and Soo Hyuk Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake system includes a stroke sensor to output a detection signal indicative of a status of a stroke of a brake pedal, and a first controller to receive the detection signal and to generate a switching signal in accordance with a displacement of the brake pedal based on a result of comparing the detection signal with a predetermined reference value. In particular, the switc...