ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,132, issued on April 21, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for actuating a vehicle brake system of a vehicle, and towing vehicle" was invented by Julian van Thiel (Grossburgwedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for actuating a vehicle brake system of a vehicle with a towing vehicle and a trailer that can be coupled. The towing vehicle has a trailer interface via which interface signals can be transmitted between the towing vehicle and the coupled trailer. The method includes: reading a sensor signal from a vehicle sensor, determination and provision of a monitoring result by e...