ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,325, issued on April 14, was assigned to KB Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG (Pullach, Germany).
"System and method for controlling a vehicle brake to prevent vehicle roll away" was invented by Niket Mokashi (Wakad, India), Daniel S. Reifman (Cleveland), Abhir R. Agashe (Aurangabad, India) and Pravin Kokane (Tathwade, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake control system for a vehicle includes electropneumatic modules that control fluid pressure to brake actuators for wheel brakes to apply and release service and parking brakes. A parking brake controller (i) determines whether the parking brake is in an applied state or a ...