US Patent Issued to CTS on April 14 for "Vehicle pads that emulate traditional vehicle pedals and include mechanical hysteresis" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,071, issued on April 14, was assigned to CTS Corp. (Lisle, Ill.).

"Vehicle pads that emulate traditional vehicle pedals and include mechanical hysteresis" was invented by Scott Calkins (Elkhart, Ind.) and XiaoXiao Lu (Granger, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal assembly for a vehicle that includes a foot pad, a pedal base, a flexible hinge that couples the foot pad to a first end of the pedal base, a sensor configured to sense a force exerted on the foot pad, and an electronic processor connected to the sensor. The electronic processor is configured to generate an output signal for controlling the vehicle based on a signal ...