ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,309, issued on April 15, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).
"Disc brake for a utility vehicle" was invented by Bjoern Meissner (Munich), Steffen Sommer (Dachau, Germany), Martin Pleintinger (Eichendorf, Germany), Stefan Wetterer (Munich) and Michael Peschel (Schoengeising, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disc brake for a utility vehicle includes brake caliper which straddles a brake disc, two brake pads each arranged in a pad channel of a vehicle-side brake carrier. The brake pads are retained in the disk brake under prestress by a pad retaining spring and a pad retaining clip on the brake ...