ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,916, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Motors Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Electronic pedal device" was invented by Eun Sik Kim (Gwangmyeong, South Korea), Hyeon Uk Kim (Daegu, South Korea) and Kyung Nam Kim (Daegu, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic pedal device at operates in a pressure operation manner and thus enables a driver to operate a pedal with a small force. It is possible to greatly change operation force of a pedal pad using an elastic material which is formed to be gradually increased in a spring constant although the operational displacement of the p...