ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,875, issued on March 18, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Electronic pedal apparatus" was invented by Eun Sik Kim (Gwangmyeong-Si, 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 apparatus, in which a driver may operate the electronic pedal apparatus with a small effort, may operate by fine displacement when the driver operates a pedal pad, but a spring module is displaced by being pressed by the pedal pad and displaced by being pressed by a rotation lever so that a large change in pedal...