ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,361, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Transmission setting selection and auxiliary braking control system" was invented by Ethan Charles Seifer (Columbus, Ind.) and Ryan Eugene Edgecomb (Columbus, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for controlling a transmission and other systems and components based on operation of an auxiliary braking system for a vehicle are disclosed. A controller includes one or more processing circuits, and is configured to: receive data regarding operation of an auxiliary brake system of the vehicle; determine an auxiliary brake fault conditi...