ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,348, issued on April 15, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Lighting device for a vehicle steering wheel and vehicle steering wheel" was invented by Boubacar Sagna (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device (100) for a vehicle steering wheel rim (10), comprising: at least two light sources (120), a light diffuser (130) comprising a collecting face (131) and a diffusion face (132) arranged so as to transmit light emitted by the light sources (120) to an occupant of the vehicle when the lighting device (100) is integrated in the rim (10), characterized in that the collecting face (131) comprises at ...