ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,924, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle brake-by-wire diagnostic system and method" was invented by Hessam Kalbasi (Waterloo, Canada), Mohammad Karimi (Pickering, Canada) and SeyedAlireza Kasaiezadeh Mahabadi (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnostic monitoring of a vehicle brake-by-wire system for a vehicle may include recording a reference excitation profile of a reference brake-by-wire unit. The method further may include identifying one or more characteristic functions of the reference brake-by-wire unit based at least in part on the reference excit...