US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on July 22 for "Accelerator pedal assembly for a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,242, issued on July 22, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Accelerator pedal assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Marcel Kapocs (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Mickael Larsen (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, it is an apparatus comprising a first bracket portion comprising a deformation element and a protruding surface, wherein the protruding surface is configured to support an accelerator pedal, wherein the deformation element is arranged in a deformation zone on the protruding surface, wherein the deformation element is configured to be deformed during a crash and lifting...