ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,446, issued on June 9, was assigned to KB Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KG (Pullach, Germany).

"Electronic park brake system with vehicle motion state input" was invented by Jeswanth Samayamantula (Avon Lake, Ohio), Thomas J. Hayes (Lakewood, Ohio), Eugen Stroh (Hambuch, Germany) and Zoltan Richard Kiss (Dunaharaszti, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic park brake system includes a first electronic control unit configured to receive and compare at least first and second speed inputs and provide a quality indicator signal indicating a quality of a vehicle speed signal being delivered to an electronic brake control u...