US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Nov. 4 for "Detecting air in a brake master cylinder and bleeding the brake master cylinder of a hydraulic power brake system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,481, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Detecting air in a brake master cylinder and bleeding the brake master cylinder of a hydraulic power brake system" was invented by Erwin Reinke (Neuenstadt Am Kocher, Germany), Otmar Bussmann (Abstatt, Germany), Carsten Thierer (Abstatt, Germany), Kevin Wodrich (Erlenbach, Germany), Ralf Kinder (Auenstein, Germany) and Tim-Philipp Jesse (Sachsenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to detect air in a brake master cylinder within a hydraulic power brake system, a brake master cylinder pressure on actuation of the brake master cylinder is com...