ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,139, issued on May 27, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"System and method for monitoring wear of braking frictional pad of motor vehicle" was invented by Yongxing Jin (Shanghai), Ming Yuan (Shanghai) and Yi Yu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for monitoring wear of a braking frictional pad of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle including a brake device acting on a vehicle wheel, the brake device including a braking frictional pad that is non-rotatable relative to the vehicle wheel and is linearly movable parallel to a rotational axis of the vehicle wheel; a brake piston configured to...