US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on May 27 for "System and method for brake pad control based on surface roughness" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,908, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for brake pad control based on surface roughness" was invented by Kevin Jared Sallee (Lake Forest, Calif.), Werner Roland Naegeli (Costa Mesa, Calif.), William Jang (Walnut, Calif.), Somphone Khamly (Hacienda Heights, Calif.), Michael Fei-Kit Tung (Irvine, Calif.) and Thomas Frederick Abdallah (Warren, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for brake pad control based on surface roughness are provided. A system can determine a value of roughness associated with traversal of a surface by a vehicle. The system can genera...