ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,079, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek si, South Korea).
"Caliper brake" was invented by Hatem Shahin (Pfaffenhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a caliper brake including a disk that rotates together with a wheel, a pair of pad plates disposed on both sides of the disk, respectively, and a carrier that is fixed to a vehicle body and accommodates the pair of pad plates therein, wherein the pair of pad plates include protrusions protruding from both side ends thereof, and the carrier includes a slide groove that is recessed from the inner surface to the outer side thereof so th...