ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,941, issued on April 7, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Munich).

"System and method for evaluating the behavior of a vehicle component" was invented by Simon Flumm (Wiernsheim, Germany), Peter Graf (Esslingen a. N., Germany) and Kaan Albayrak (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating the behavior of a vehicle component, including: issuing a control signal by a control unit of a motor vehicle to a vehicle component; detecting a response of the motor vehicle to the control signal; determining the behavior of the vehicle component; classifying the behavior of the vehicle com...