US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on Jan. 13 for "Vehicle accelerator pedal responsiveness adjuster" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,192, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Vehicle accelerator pedal responsiveness adjuster" was invented by Sachin Hagaribommanahalli Yeriyappa (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mean of real-time accelerator pedal output of a vehicle that quantifies an extent to which an accelerator pedal has been pressed by a driver of the vehicle over a defined period of time is determined. Target mean accelerator pedal output for the vehicle is determined. Torque of the vehicle is changed. The torque is reduced when the mean of the real-t...