US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE on Aug. 11 for "Method for determining an actual mass of a vehicle, control system implementing such a method, and vehicle comprising such a control system" (Hungarian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,336, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Munich).

"Method for determining an actual mass of a vehicle, control system implementing such a method, and vehicle comprising such a control system" was invented by Valer Merza (Szentendre, Hungary), Daniel Thum (Munich) and Tamas Komlos (Csavoly, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an actual mass of a vehicle, includes: determining a reference relationship of a deceleration of the vehicle having a known mass with respect to a brake demand; executing braking with a predetermined brake demand; detecting an actual deceler...