US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Europe on May 27 for "Wheel end brake temperature monitoring in trucks and trailers" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,900, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Europe BV (Brussels).

"Wheel end brake temperature monitoring in trucks and trailers" was invented by Mehmet Yilmaz (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring a brake component temperature of a brake of a vehicle. The method includes measuring a wheel end temperature at a wheel end of a vehicle via a temperature sensor at the wheel end; determining whether the measured wheel end temperature is above a threshold representative of a critical temperature of the brake component; and, outputting a warning signal when the determine...