US Patent Issued to Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge on Sept. 22 for "Redundant braking system and method for operating such a braking system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,617, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).

"Redundant braking system and method for operating such a braking system" was invented by Falk Hecker (Markgroeningen, Germany), Oliver Jundt (Hessigheim, Germany) and Adnan Mustapha (Maulbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake system for a vehicle for acquiring at least one status variable for controlling the brake system, including: a primary control unit for controlling the brake system by at least one actuator and taking into account the at least one status variable; and a redundancy control unit for controlling the brak...