US Patent Issued to ZF Active Safety on Sept. 16 for "Method for detecting a brake pedal actuation of a brake pedal by a driver during an initialisation of an actuator and method for initialising an actuator of a brake system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,495, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZF Active Safety GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Method for detecting a brake pedal actuation of a brake pedal by a driver during an initialisation of an actuator and method for initialising an actuator of a brake system" was invented by Andreas Dahm (Koblenz, Germany) and Michael Friedrich (Elz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a brake pedal actuation of a brake pedal by a driver during an initialization of an actuator, of a brake system, in which, during operation, an initialization operation and/or a system initialisation, of the actuator, a dynamic, position analysi...