US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on Dec. 30 for "Steering wheel and method for turning on preset function in vehicle by using steering wheel" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,015, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Steering wheel and method for turning on preset function in vehicle by using steering wheel" was invented by Liang Ding (Shanghai) and Linlin Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel, including a cover, a safety airbag, and a frame, the safety airbag being accommodated in a space defined by the cover and the frame and being fixedly mounted on the frame, and the cover being connected to the frame in a suspended manner. The cover is a unitary structure, and is divided into a first functional region, a second functional region, and a ...