ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,392, issued on April 7, was assigned to KSR IP Holdings LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Pedal assemblies including redundant sensing systems" was invented by Shaun Fuller (Thamesville, Canada), Jaesung Kim (Ridgetown, Canada), Marty Vanek (Thamesville, Canada) and Michael Olajos (South Woodslee, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein are directed to a pedal assembly that includes a pedal arm, a drive assembly, and a sensing assembly. The pedal arm having a pair of protrusions extending therefrom and at least one has a geared surface. The drive assembly has a gear configured to complement the geared surface of the one of th...