US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 30 for "Control system and method for controlling an activation state of a braking-torque assistance system for reducing intake of braking energy in a service-brake system of a vehicle" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,218, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Control system and method for controlling an activation state of a braking-torque assistance system for reducing intake of braking energy in a service-brake system of a vehicle" was invented by Thomas Wilwers (Prum, Germany), Thomas Svensson (Leichlingen, Germany), Eugen Weber (Cologne, Germany) and Lowell Kubik (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an activation state of a braking-torque assistance system for reducing intake of braking energy in the service-brake system of a vehicle includes capturing a...