US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI on Sept. 9 for "Steering device and method of wrapping synthetic leather" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,878, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Steering device and method of wrapping synthetic leather" was invented by Tatsuya Yamada (Kiyosu, Japan), Seiji Egawa (Kiyosu, Japan), Kazuki Nemoto (Kiyosu, Japan) and Shintaro Nakamura (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The steering device includes a main body including a metal core, and a synthetic leather part wrapped around the main body. The synthetic leather part includes a first synthetic leather part, a second synthetic leather part made of a different material from the first synthetic leather part, and a first sewing part having...