US Patent Issued to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems on Sept. 22 for "Brake control apparatus for a vehicle train and methods therefor" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,624, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC (Avon, Ohio).

"Brake control apparatus for a vehicle train and methods therefor" was invented by Konstantinos Vilaetis (Lakewood, Ohio), Nicholas A. Broyles (North Ridgeville, Ohio) and Andrew J. Pilkington (Avon Lake, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake control apparatus is provided for a vehicle train having a tractor and one or more towed vehicles coupled to the tractor. The brake control apparatus comprises a tractor controller arranged to detect a pressure change in at least one brake line of the vehicle train in response to a brake trigger s...