ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,184, issued on April 21, was assigned to WEICHAI POWER Co. LTD. (Weifang, China).

"Acceleration-pedal control method, apparatus and system" was invented by Yuan Cao (Weifang, China), Fenggang Li (Weifang, China), Daichang Guo (Weifang, China) and Baoan Ding (Weifang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acceleration-pedal control method, apparatus and system are provided. The acceleration-pedal control method comprises: acquiring an accelerator torques MAP1, MAP2, MAP3 and MAP4; on the basis that the initial value of a counter is 0 and a vehicle speed meets a preset vehicle speed condition, the counter starting to count; controll...