ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,735, issued on May 12, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek, South Korea).
"Caliper brake" was invented by Sudhir Kumar (Haryana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A caliper brake includes a carrier in which a pair of pad plates are installed to move forward to and backward from a disc, a caliper housing slidably installed on the carrier and provided with a cylinder, a piston installed in the cylinder and provided to move forward to and backward from the pad plate by brake hydraulic pressure, and a friction reducing part provided between an inner circumferential surface of the caliper housing and an outer circumferential surf...