US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI on June 3 for "Steering wheel and vehicle control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,141, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Steering wheel and vehicle control device" was invented by Bunpei Morita (Kiyosu, Japan), Kenji Fujimura (Kiyosu, Japan), Yuki Miyasaka (Kiyosu, Japan) and Akitoshi Naganawa (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel includes a control unit that executes an acceleration control or a deceleration control of a vehicle based on results of detections by a first contact detecting portion, a second contact detecting portion, a first operation detecting portion, and a second operation detecting portion. The control unit does not execute th...