US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE on Sept. 16 for "Method for identifying faults in a brake assembly of a motor vehicle, and motor-vehicle braking system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,489, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Munich).

"Method for identifying faults in a brake assembly of a motor vehicle, and motor-vehicle braking system" was invented by Dieter Woerner (Eppingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a fault in a brake assembly of a motor vehicle, including: ascertaining a first estimated value of a brake temperature based on an applied brake pressure; registering a series of measured temperature values by a temperature sensor spaced from the brake assembly; determining a second estimated value of the brake temperature based on...