US Patent Issued to ZF Active Safety US on July 29 for "Apparatus and method for evacuation of a brake system" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,994, issued on July 29, was assigned to ZF Active Safety US Inc. (Livonia, Mich.).

"Apparatus and method for evacuation of a brake system" was invented by Douglas Osborn (Livonia, Mich.) and Daniel L. Hopper (Bay Village, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a vehicle brake system having multiple wheel brakes includes providing a plunger assembly having a plunger and a chamber fluidly connected to at least one of the wheel brakes. An evacuation of at least one of the wheel brakes is performed by moving the plunger relative to the chamber under control of an electronic control unit (ECU) to generate a vacuum from ...