ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,799, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for braking a vehicle and brake control system for a vehicle" was invented by Jonathan Juergens (Stuttgart, Germany), Andreas Zoebele (Markgroeningen, Germany), Jochen Steinmann (Loewenstein, Germany) and Jochen Staack (Winnenden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for braking a vehicle with the aid of at least one electric machine, operated as a generator, of the vehicle, a torque generated by the electric machine is controlled by a damping control function in order to reduce a periodic deflection of a drive train, coupled to a ...