US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Methods for providing correct brake request with a stuck e-pedal" (American, Mexican, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,333, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods for providing correct brake request with a stuck e-pedal" was invented by Roberto Villegas Muriel (Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico), Thomas Svensson (Leichlingen, Germany), Andrew Stoscup (Wixom, Mich.) and Harold John Felch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a brake-by-wire system having a brake pedal and first and second sensors. The first sensor is configured to output a first signal indicative of a position of the brake pedal and the second sensor is configured to output a second signal indicative of the posit...