US Patent Issued to FOUNDATION BRAKES FRANCE on March 17 for "System for controlling an electric parking brake by pulse width modulation" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,822, issued on March 17, was assigned to FOUNDATION BRAKES FRANCE (Drancy, France).

"System for controlling an electric parking brake by pulse width modulation" was invented by Lennart Witte (Strasbourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling an electric parking brake system of a motor vehicle having at least two brakes designed to be mounted near wheels of the motor vehicle, each brake comprising a parking brake actuator actuated by an electric motor; the control system comprises a control unit (UC) for controlling electric motors, such that, when an instruction to apply the parking brake is issued, ...