US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on May 19 for "Drum brake having compensation of brake-shoe transverse offset" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,225, issued on May 19, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Drum brake having compensation of brake-shoe transverse offset" was invented by Martin Gadke (Hofheim, Germany), Adrian Messner (Mainz, Germany), Uwe Bach (Niedernhausen, Germany), Ahmed Sefo (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Matthias Schulitz (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Jens Hoffmann (Darmstadt, Germany) and Christian Vey (Petersberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drum brake for an electrical motor vehicle brake system wherein actuator means, a transmission means and a spreading device are in a force flow with movably mounte...