US Patent Issued to CTS on May 13 for "Vehicle brake pedal with linear pedal resistance and dampener assembly and force/position sensor" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,811, issued on May 13, was assigned to CTS Corp. (Lisle, Ill.).

"Vehicle brake pedal with linear pedal resistance and dampener assembly and force/position sensor" was invented by Ryan Andrew Wagner (Goshen, Ind.) and Jeffrey John Bilik (Granger, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle pedal resistance and dampener assembly includes a dampener module defining an interior fluid-filled cavity and adapted for generating a dampening force on the vehicle pedal. A pedal resistance module generates a resistance force on the vehicle pedal. The dampener module and the resistance module are moveable relative to each other. A shaft in the ...