US Patent Issued to ZF Active Safety on June 30 for "Floating caliper brake with an adjustment device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,159, issued on June 30, was assigned to ZF Active Safety GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Floating caliper brake with an adjustment device" was invented by Lukas Madzgalla (Lahnstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Depicted and described is a floating caliper brake comprising an adjustment device, wherein when a second distance between a first end section and a second end section is equal to, or greater than, a predefined distance, an actuation section of an adjustment element engages with a gear section in such a way that an increase in the second distance of the actuation section of the adjustment element causes the gear section t...