ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,113, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Thermal harvesting for vehicle brakes" was invented by Ramakrishna Rao P.V (Bangalore, India), Raghavendra Muniraju (Bangalore, India), Chandiran Jayamurugan (Bangalore, India) and Ravi Kumar Nimmapati (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a magnet configured to move in response to a movement of a wear pin indicator of a brake assembly of a vehicle. A sensor is configured to generate position data corresponding to the magnet. The position data is indicative of a position and/or movement of the wear pin indicator. The...