US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 24 for "Stowable vehicle pedal system and method" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,809, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Stowable vehicle pedal system and method" was invented by Roberto Villegas Muriel (Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico), Harbind S. Chahal (Novi, Mich.) and Andrew Stoscup (Wixom, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stowable pedal system for a motor vehicle is provided. The stowable pedal system for a motor vehicle includes a foot pedal configured to be actuated by a user in a deployed position and further actuatable to a stowed position and the deployed position, and a sensor assembly sensing a sensed position of the foot pedal. The system also incl...