US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on Aug. 4 for "Grip detection device, failure determination method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,862, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Grip detection device, failure determination method, and program" was invented by Jae Woo Yu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hands-on detection device of a steering wheel according to one embodiment of the present invention is a hands-on detection device of a steering wheel comprising: a core metal; a shield electrode provided outside the core metal and separated by an insulator (In); a sensor electrode further provided outside the shield electrode and separated by an insulator (In); and a control unit configured to acquire the capacit...