US Patent Issued to GOODRICH on June 30 for "Variable braking systems and devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,439, issued on June 30, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Variable braking systems and devices" was invented by Venkatesh Chitragar (Bangalore, India) and Vinayak Vijaya Chandran (Secunderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake roller assembly may comprise: a shaft; a first roller bearing coupled to the shaft and disposed at a first axial end of the shaft a second roller bearing coupled to the shaft and disposed at a second axial end of the shaft; a roller cylinder disposed radially outward of the first roller bearing and the second roller bearing; and a braking arrangement, including a plurality of electr...