ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,645, issued on May 12, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for implementing a redundant brake system" was invented by Timothy Alexander Buchert (Mountain View, Calif.), David James Smith (Mountain View, Calif.) and Juan Manual Gomez-Ramos (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to triple redundant brake systems for trucks and other types of vehicles. Disclosed systems offer additional redundancy for braking applications by incorporating a third service brake actuator (e.g., a third ECU), which may be installed parallel to the second controller (e.g., a second...