ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,072, issued on April 14, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Pedal emulator for a vehicle" was invented by Werner Austermeier (Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany), Kerim Florian Huge (Lippstadt, Germany), Andreas Mueller (Bueren ot Siddinghausen, Germany), Ralf Ridder (Lippstadt, Germany) and Claus Viethen (Erwitte, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal emulator for a vehicle, having a rotational axis, a pedal lever that can be rotated about the rotational axis, and a force generation unit for exerting a counterforce on the pedal lever via at least one coupling element of the force generation unit t...