ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,753, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Brake device for vehicle" was invented by Etsugou Yanagida (Kariya, Japan), Kunio Nanba (Kariya, Japan) and Daisuke Hokuto (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brake device includes: a brake pedal including a pedal and a lever that rotates about a rotation axis when the pedal is operated; a housing that rotatably supports the lever; a reaction force generator that generates a reaction force to the lever in accordance with a stroke amount of the brake pedal by receiving a force from the lever when the brake pedal is operated; a deformation member includin...