ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,826, issued on March 17, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Braking system for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Tobias Brok (Kosching, Germany) and Simone Macorig (Oelde, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A braking system in an at least partially autonomous vehicle, having one vehicle wheel brake per vehicle wheel, which is assigned to both the primary brake regulation system and a redundant secondary brake regulation system, wherein the primary brake regulation system has a primary control unit and one electromechanical primary actuator per vehicle wheel for actuating the vehicle wheel brake, and wherein the...