US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "System for providing feedback based on pedal touching" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,331, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System for providing feedback based on pedal touching" was invented by Benjamin Piya Austin (Saline, Mich.), Heishiro Toyoda (Mountain View, Calif.), Philip J. Babian (Canton, Mich.), Rebecca L Kirschweng (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Takeshi Yoshida (Ann Arbor, Mich.), George M. Evans (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and William Patrick Garrett (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedal touch anomaly notification system for a vehicle is provided. The system includes the vehicle i...