ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,860, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adaptive noise cancellation in a brake system" was invented by Thomas Svensson (Leichlingen, Germany) and Harold John Felch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adaptively canceling brake system noise in a vehicle may include monitoring for an occurrence of brake torque stick slip and determining, based on a table of critical parameters associated with brake noise production, when vehicle status information indicates the vehicle is in a critical region for brake noise production. The method may further include, responsive to the ...