ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,334, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CTS Corp. (Lisle, Ill.).
"Vehicular pedal assembly" was invented by Micah Anderson (Mishawaka, Ind.), Kevin Wolschlager (Elkhart, Ind.) and John Clark (Granger, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular pedal assembly includes a pedal housing, a pedal shaft supported by the pedal housing for rotation about a pedal axis, a pedal arm coupled to the pedal shaft pivotable to drive the pedal shaft to rotate about the pedal axis, and a position sensor assembly coupled to the pedal shaft to determine a rotational position of the pedal shaft. The position sensor assembly includes a target element...