ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,825, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Hydraulic unit" was invented by Rudiger Briesewitz (Bruchkobel, Germany), Joseph Dolmaya (Langen, Germany), Mike Hirsemann (Darmstadt, Germany) and Christian Rene Koch (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydraulic unit for a slip-controlled brake system, the simulator receiving hole of which is aligned transversely to a master cylinder hole in a receiving body of the hydraulic unit, thus enabling a section of the simulator to be received in a cap of a control unit."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2020, ...