ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,939, issued on April 7, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vehicle control apparatus and method, and storage medium" was invented by Hui Wang (Shenzhen, China), Jian Sun (Shanghai), Tianzhu Song (Shanghai) and Lulu Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example vehicle control apparatus and methods are described. In one example, the vehicle control apparatus includes a brake pedal and an accelerator pedal. The brake pedal is connected to a vehicle chassis by using a kinematic pair, and at least a part of the accelerator pedal is projected on the brake pedal. Based on the appa...