Unique brush name in abr files - property missing?

Hi,
It seems that brushes saved in abr files have a unique name
for each brushtip (which is showen when hovering over a brush
thumb in the preset manager).
The photoshop file formats documentation however, doesn't
give information about this property. Any one knows how to retirve
this unique name when reading brush files?
Tnx
Sol

Well, since no one seems to answer,
Maybe some one can point me to a place I can look
that up?
I searched everywhere on the net and read the SDK documents in depth
but could not find any information
Is theres an email I can send this question to?

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