US Patent Issued to ZF Active Safety on Sept. 23 for "Procedure for monitoring a wheel brake of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,768, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZF Active Safety GmbH (Kobienz, Germany).

"Procedure for monitoring a wheel brake of a vehicle" was invented by Christoph Probst (Bendorf, Germany) and Tobias Oppermann (Hollnich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a procedure for monitoring a wheel brake of a vehicle, in a procedural cycle a predefined brake pressure is set at the wheel brake, and a current value of a brake characteristic is determined. The current value is compared with a stored idealised value. The current value of the brake characteristic is stored and evaluated, and the comparison of the current value with the sto...