US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Methods and apparatus to dynamically determine brake pad wear" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,729, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to dynamically determine brake pad wear" was invented by Yun Xing (Canton, Mich.) and John Erik Mikael Hellstrom (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to sense brake pad wear are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory device and at least one processor to execute instructions to determine whether a braking event corresponds to an anti-lock braking event or a non-anti-lock braking event, in response to the braking event corresponding to the anti-lock braking event, determi...