US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Global on July 22 for "Method for controlling a brake system, brake system, and vehicle combination" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,318, issued on July 22, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for controlling a brake system, brake system, and vehicle combination" was invented by Florian Schwagmeyer (Uetze-Dollbergen, Germany) and Henrik Wiechert (Springe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method controls a brake system of a vehicle combination. The switching valve in the second setting (anti-jackknifing braking function active) outputs a reservoir pressure into a trailer pressure line to actuate the trailer service brakes dependent on the anti-jackknifing braking demand. When service braking demand anti-jackknifing braking...