US Patent Issued to ZF ACTIVE SAFETY, ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN on Sept. 1 for "Brake actuator and vehicle brake" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,633, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ZF ACTIVE SAFETY GMBH (Koblenz, Germany) and ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Brake actuator and vehicle brake" was invented by Werner Seibert (Kammerforst, Germany), Felix Hiester (Rueber, Germany), Roman Bechmann (Koblenz, Germany), Thomas Schwegler (Tettnang, Germany) and Stephen Pudvay (Howell, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Specified is a brake actuator (12), in particular for an electromechanical vehicle brake (10), having an electric motor (32) for activating the vehicle brake (10), and a blocking module (36) for selectively rotationally blocking an output shaft (...