US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 17 for "Vehicle braking components including an adhesion layer" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,994, issued on March 17, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle braking components including an adhesion layer" was invented by Zhongyi Liu (Troy, Mich.), Heewook Lee (Oakland Township, Mich.), Ratandeep Singh Kukreja (Auburn Hills, Mich.), Anil K. Sachdev (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Tyson Whittier Brown (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle braking component having a composite structure includes a brake core comprising an aluminum alloy, the brake core defining a core surface, a thermal barrier layer comprising a thermally insulating material, and an adhesion layer between the ...