ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,261, issued on June 3, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Method for estimating a brake factor parameter in a braking system, and vehicle implementing the same" was invented by Chidambaram Subramanian (Greensboro, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for estimating a brake factor parameter, the brake factor parameter being defined as a ratio of a braking torque over a braking pressure, the braking torque being applied on a wheel of a vehicle by a braking wheel sub-system of a braking system of the vehicle, the braking pressure being applied by the braking wheel sub-system to achieve the braking torque on th...