ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,882, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ZF CV SYSTEMS GLOBAL GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).
"Method for brake control of a vehicle combination" was invented by Ivo Laskawy (Hamburg, Germany), Simon Pauka (Hannover, Germany) and Lars Volker (Seelze, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for controlling the brakes of a vehicle combination that includes a tractor vehicle and at least one trailer vehicle. A brake control valve in the tractor vehicle has magnetic switching valves that controlled by an electronic control unit, including an inlet valve and an outlet valve. To determine a current trailer status, it is deter...