ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,616, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Electric parking brake device" was invented by Koji Usui (Ibaraki, Japan), Sandip Purane (Ibaraki, Japan), Hiromu Narukawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Takeshi Sakaguchi (Nagano, Japan) and Masato Uno (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric parking brake device is associated with a service brake configured to generate a brake force in accordance with an operation input of a vehicle user, and configured to enable a parking brake configured to generate a brake force with a function of an electric actuator having operation controlled by a control unit....