ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,860, issued on July 28, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fur Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH (Munich).

"Equipment of a partly autonomously or autonomously operated motor vehicle" was invented by Oliver Jundt (Hessigheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to equipment of a partly autonomously or autonomously operated motor vehicle. The equipment includes an electrically actuating service brake device which carries out at least one service brake function, an electrically actuating parking brake device which has at least one applied state and a released state, a drive device which has at least one active state for dr...