ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,099, issued on June 23, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO France (Drancy, France).

"Method for adjusting the clamping force exerted by an electromechanical brake" was invented by Carlos Eduardo Ramirez Hernandez (Issy les Moulineaux, France) and Abdessamed Ramdane (Beauvais, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adjusting the clamping force exerted by an electromechanical brake of a motor vehicle, the brake including an electric motor provided with a rotating shaft which is intended to drive a mechanical brake-application mechanism, the electric motor being controlled by a PWM-type voltage controller, in which the rotationa...