ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,854, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Steering wheel assembly" was invented by Nan Shen (Shanghai), Xinli Wang (Shanghai), Wei Zhu (Shanghai) and Lei Zhou (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel assembly including a steering wheel, a transmission member, and an electronic device, wherein the transmission member is configured to transmit torque between the steering wheel and a steering column; the steering wheel includes a steering wheel center portion and a steering wheel rim surrounding the steering wheel center portion, the steering wheel rim is provided with an elec...