US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Method for determining a contact position and electrically actuated motor vehicle brake" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,170, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for determining a contact position and electrically actuated motor vehicle brake" was invented by Jurgen Bohm (Oberneisen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically actuated motor vehicle brake and method are provided for determining a contact position of an electrically actuated motor vehicle brake along a displacement path of an actuator, with an initial contact position being verified using a reference contact position, and with the initial contact position being determined differently than the reference contact...