US Patent Issued to Astemo France, Astemo Heilbronn on May 5 for "Braking system including at least one parking brake" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,381, issued on May 5, was assigned to Astemo France (Drancy, France) and Astemo Heilbronn GmbH (Heilbronn, Germany).

"Braking system including at least one parking brake" was invented by Julien Sasso (Champs Sur Marne, France), Maxime Demandre (Stuttgart, Germany), Weiqiao Wang (Paris) and Alex Patrao Carqueijo (Pantin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle braking system including at least one electrically actuated parking brake (FP) to be positioned at a wheel, a control unit (UC) configured for generating a command for the parking brake (FP) to apply parking braking or to interrupt the application of parking braking ...