US Patent Issued to ITT Italia S.r.l on Nov. 3 for "Method and a device for estimating residual torque between the braked and braking elements of a vehicle" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,213, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ITT Italia S.r.l (Lainate, Italy).

"Method and a device for estimating residual torque between the braked and braking elements of a vehicle" was invented by Pietro Roberto Macchi (Turin, Italy), Umberto Vignolo (Porte, Italy), Marco Terranova (Turin, Italy) and Stefano Serra (Saluzzo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating the residual torque between the braked and braking elements of a vehicle that is characterized by the following phases: acquisition of the temperature value of said braking element; determination of whether said brake is activated when the temperature valu...