ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,551, issued on May 20, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Steering wheel" was invented by Ruigang Sang (Shanghai), Qi Lu (Shanghai) and Shuhao Wang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel, comprising a steering wheel rim and a steering wheel center support. The steering wheel rim is rotatable, and the steering wheel rim is mounted so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation. The steering wheel further comprises: a pivot shaft having a first end is fixedly connected to the steering wheel rim, pivoting of the pivot shaft about a second axis of rotation causes the steering wheel rim to...