ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,481, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).
"Modular braking adjuster with hybrid design" was invented by Viktor Hofmann (Bayreuth, Germany) and Patrick Hofstetter (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular braking adjuster includes a brake resistor and at least two sub-modules arranged in series. At least one sub-module is constructed as a full-bridge module and at least one sub-module is constructed as a double half-bridge module. A control device is configured to generate a voltage across the serially connected sub-modules, wherein the voltage has a direct voltage component and an a...