ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,915, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Controlled deceleration for parking of a vehicle" was invented by Fabian Hempert (Benningen am Neckar, Germany), Frank Matthias Baehrle-Miller (Schoenaich, Germany), Joseph J. Anderson (Northville, Mich.) and Benjamin Heer (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide a system and method for controlled deceleration for parking a vehicle. The system includes a parking brake control device, a sensor configured to measure a speed of the vehicle and output a measured vehicle speed, a parking brake, a primary hydraulic system including a ...