ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,856, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Vehicle steering wheel comprising mechanisms and a control actuator" was invented by Seung-Hoon Choo (Seoul, South Korea), Sebastien Cassin (Migne Auxances, France), Thomas Leboeuf (Ouzilly, France) and Ho-Jun Sung (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steering wheel comprising: a base structure a mobile structure, articulated relative to the base structure so as to be able to move between a first position and a second position, a first mechanism and a second mechanism, each arranged between the base structure, an actuator arr...