US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Methods and apparatus for determining positions of a stowable pedal assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,254, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus for determining positions of a stowable pedal assembly" was invented by Joshua McCready (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Scott J. Lauffer (Northville, Mich.), Daniel A. Gabor (Canton, Mich.) and Seema Gami (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for determining positions of a stowable pedal assembly are disclosed. An example apparatus to determine a position of a stowable pedal assembly of a vehicle includes motor control circuitry to provide a control signal to a motor operatively coupled to the stowable pedal ...