ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,287, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Stowable pedal assembly" was invented by Joshua Mccready (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Seema Gami (Novi, Mich.), Brandon Beauvais (Dearborn, Mich.) and Daniel A. Gabor (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to identify a vehicle being in an autonomous drive mode. The computer includes instructions to detect a user request to change the drive mode from the autonomous drive mode to a manual drive mode. The computer includes instructions to...