ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,991, issued on July 29, was assigned to ZF ACTIVE SAFETY US INC. (Livonia, Mich.).
"Brake system with fault-tolerant features" was invented by Blaise J. Ganzel (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake system includes a reservoir and a motor-driven master cylinder operable during a backup braking mode by actuation of an electric motor of the master cylinder to generate brake actuating pressure for hydraulically actuating the pair of front wheel brakes and the pair of rear wheel brakes. A power transmission unit is configured for selectively providing pressurized hydraulic fluid to a PTU output for actuating the pair of...