US Patent Issued to ZF ACTIVE SAFETY on Sept. 2 for "Method for detecting a resistance on a brake pedal pulled by an actuator and method for controlling an actuator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,870, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ZF ACTIVE SAFETY GMBH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Method for detecting a resistance on a brake pedal pulled by an actuator and method for controlling an actuator" was invented by David Steinmann (Weibern, Germany), Dominik Schmidt (Boppard, Germany), Patrick Wiedner (Koblenz, Germany), Stefan Schmitz (Faid, Germany) and Andreas Hoehn (Dreikirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a resistance on a brake pedal of a brake system, in which a brake pedal is pulled by an actuator, in which an ease of movement of the brake pedal is determined during operation of the actuator, wh...