ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,822, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Brake system and electronic control device" was invented by Shinji Komatsu (Nisshin-city, Japan), Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya-city, Japan) and Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake system includes a brake device, a brake circuit that generates a braking force for braking a vehicle, ECU that controls the braking force generated by the brake circuit according to a stroke amount of the brake pedal, and a user interface. When the first mode is selected, the ECU executes normal control for controlling the braking force generated by t...