US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Europe on March 24 for "Brake system with safer emergency stop function and method for same" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,425, issued on March 24, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Europe BV (Brussels).

"Brake system with safer emergency stop function and method for same" was invented by Julian van Thiel (Grossburgwedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to a method for safe emergency stopping of a utility vehicle having an electronically controllable pneumatic brake system with spring brake cylinders on at least one axle. The electronically controllable pneumatic brake system has a service brake system and a first redundancy system. In the event of a first fault in the service brake system, the vehicle is braked by the redu...