US Patent Issued to ZF Active Safety on Nov. 25 for "Method for operating a force-sensor-less electromechanical service brake of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,409, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ZF Active Safety GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Method for operating a force-sensor-less electromechanical service brake of a vehicle" was invented by Andreas Marx (Hartenfels, Germany) and Fabian Querbach (Lonnig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating a force-sensor-less electromechanical service brake of a vehicle, a current profile of a force-displacement characteristic is determined and stored during a closing of a parking brake when the vehicle is being parked. The current profile of the force-displacement characteristic is used during a subsequent trip to set a requi...