US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 12 for "Vehicle brake system" (Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,644, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle brake system" was invented by Matthew Johnson (Toledo, Ohio), Colton Knopf (Canton, Mich.) and Daniel Joseph Dunn (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes wheels, brakes to control speeds of the wheels, and a hydraulic fluid source in fluid communication with the brakes. The vehicle includes a computer storing instructions to determine that speeds of the wheels are zero and actuate the hydraulic fluid source to provide hydraulic fluid to a first set of one or more of the brakes at a first pressure sufficient to maint...