ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,090, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle steering handle" was invented by Keita Moritsu (Okazaki, Japan), Mari Sato (Toyota, Japan), Yoshito Watanabe (Nisshin, Japan), Yutaro Yamamoto (Okazaki, Japan), Ryutaro Misumi (Toyota, Japan), Kazuyoshi Shirai (Toyota, Japan), Takatoshi Ohya (Toyota, Japan), Kohei Nohara (Okazaki, Japan), Yasuhiko Fukuzumi (Nagoya, Japan), Ryunosuke Yamada (Toyota, Japan), Sei Kobayashi (Toyota, Japan), Akihiro Suzuki (Susono, Japan), Go Tanaka (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Seiji Toriu (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Minoru Takayama (Miyoshi, Japan), Hiromasa Okadome (Toyoake, Japan), Kazunari Abe (Toyota, Japan) and Yuta Kamiya...