ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,025, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Steering, steering system, method for controlling steering, and non-temporary computer readable storage media" was invented by Yukinori Midorikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuta Ozawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiaki Ebana (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With the steering wheel, steering system, method of controlling steering, and non-temporary computer readable storage media, a grasp detection function can be applied to a steering wheel with a heating function, where one function can contribute to the improvement...