ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,816, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Vehicle system for carrying out braking" was invented by Andreas Wohlfarth (Owingen, Germany), Martin Pollak (Lindau, Germany), Eva-Maria Baur (Friedrichshafen, Germany), Frank Salamon (Fronreute, Germany) and Roman Krzemien (Meckenbeuren, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system for braking a vehicle includes a first sensor system for recording a first image of a vehicle's environment, an evaluation unit for evaluating the first image, a second sensor system for recording a second image of the vehicle's environment, and a secon...