ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,249, issued on June 3, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Distributed electric park brake control" was invented by Ankit Shah (Canton, Mich.), Anthony J. Farrell (Brooklyn, Mich.) and Sivaraja Velusamy (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for distributed electric park brake control. The vehicle's electronic stability controller (ESC) is configured to monitor the status of an electric parking brake switch and to provide control signals to a motor-on-caliper actuator based on the status of the electric parking brake switch. A secondary brake system controller (for exam...