ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,349, issued on April 15, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Vehicle steering wheel lighting device" was invented by Olivier Bertrand (Courcome, France), Hugues Doursoux (Latille, France), Boubacar Sagna (Paris) and Pascal Hugaud (Le Mesnil le Roi, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lighting device for a vehicle steering wheel rim, comprising: -a plurality of light sources arranged so as to emit light towards an external display wall of the rim, -a holding body comprising an internal wall with an elongate opening having a predetermined passage width to allow the light emitted towards the external display w...