ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,818, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).
"Control device" was invented by Kazuaki Yoshida (Kariya, Japan) and Miyu Tamura (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the case where drive power of a vehicle is increased, a control device starts micro-braking control for generating a braking force on at least one wheel of a front wheel and a rear wheel. During execution of the micro-braking control, the control device estimates an efficacy factor that is a factor indicating a relationship of a magnitude of the braking force to a magnitude of a pressing force generated by a friction braking system. ...