ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,861, issued on July 28, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Diagnostic method and braking system including a unit for performing the diagnostic method" was invented by Julian van Thiel (Grossburgwedel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic method performs a self-diagnosis of an electronically controllable pneumatic braking system for a commercial vehicle. The method includes: receiving a learning signal about the braking system; in response to the reception, putting the braking system into a learning mode and performing the steps: performing a predetermined first activity of the braking syste...