US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE on Aug. 11 for "Brake system and braking method for rail vehicles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,331, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Germany).

"Brake system and braking method for rail vehicles" was invented by Sebastian Rehberger (Freising, Germany), Michael Stanko (Munich), Joachim Breidenstein (KoBlarn, Germany), Roland Voigtlander-Tetzner (Vaterstetten, Germany) and Josef Baier (Niederaichbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for electromechanically braking rail vehicles, wherein the brake system includes a brake control unit configured to provide braking functions and output a force manipulated variable, an actuator control unit configured to pr...