ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,137, issued on April 21, was assigned to AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH & TESTING CENTER (Lugong, Taiwan).

"Brake pedaling simulator and method for evaluating braking state of vehicle" was invented by Jia-Le Wei (Lugong, Taiwan), Tsung-Hua Hsu (Lugong, Taiwan) and Fu-Hsien Sun (Lugong, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake pedaling simulator includes a base seat, a housing, a deceleration indication unit, a sensing unit, a control unit, and first and second pressure units including their respective first and second pressing members and biasing members. The first pressing member is pushed by a brake pedal of a vehicle to compress the fi...