ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,633, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Pedal unit for a vehicle" was invented by Heiko Walter (Untergruppenbach, Germany), Christoph Diekmann (Besigheim, Germany), David Volkmer (Marbach Am Neckar, Germany), Marcel Bastian (Tamm, Germany), Maximilian Bayer (Tamm, Germany), Michael Hofmann (Mannheim, Germany), Philipp Seibold (Fellbach, Germany), Sebastian Stolz (Neckarwestheim, Germany) and Thorsten Maucher (Neckarwestheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal unit for a vehicle has a sensor surface which includes at least two functional regions and is designed to detect an actuat...