ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,256, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for braking a vehicle using a redundant braking system" was invented by Yin Zhang (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for braking a vehicle through a redundant braking system includes (i) in response to a fault signal received from the main braking system of the vehicle, obtaining the motor speed, (ii) calculating the wheel speed of the vehicle based on the motor speed, and (iii) generating a braking command based on the wheel speed to control the braking actuators of the vehicle to brake the wheels."
The patent w...