ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,724, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Damping insert locator for a rotor core tool and a brake rotor employing the same" was invented by Yuri Anatoly Karpenko (Brighton, Mich.), Mauricio Gonzalez-Rocha (Novi, Mich.), Martin Tlaxca Rodriguez (Puebla, Mexico) and Manoj Nelagadde (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake component for a motor vehicle may include a body having an axis, at least one cable comprising a plurality of wires where each of the plurality of wires has a surface in sliding contact with surfaces of adjacent wires of the plurality of wires, and a plurali...