US Patent Issued to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems on Feb. 17 for "System and method for controlling a vehicle parking brake" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,353, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC (Avon, Ohio).

"System and method for controlling a vehicle parking brake" was invented by Thomas J. Hayes (Lakewood, Ohio), Vishawajeet Sukhadev More (Pune, India) and Richard A. Romer (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a parking brake in a vehicle includes an operator interface configured to receive inputs from an operator of the vehicle including a first input requesting that the parking brake transition from an applied state to a released state. The system further includes a brake controller configured to identi...