US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on May 13 for "Automatic parking brake actuation and failure detection" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,805, issued on May 13, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Automatic parking brake actuation and failure detection" was invented by Zongzheng Li (Tucson, Ariz.), Haimo Bi (Tucson, Ariz.) and Xiaoling Han (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for improving safety with parking brake actuation. In particular, embodiments inhibit or allow parking brake commands based on an operation state of a vehicle. Further, embodiments act on parking brake commands based on a health or condition of the parking brakes themselves. An example method for autonomous operation of a vehicle includes receiving a command ...