ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,431, issued on July 21, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Vehicle steering wheel with heating device" was invented by Arthur Meunier (Poitiers, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle steering wheel having a rim to be gripped by a driver of the vehicle, a trim casing arranged to cover a body of the rim so as to at least partially form an outer surface of the rim, a flexible heating device inserted between the trim casing and the body of the rim, comprising at least one heating track, wherein the heating track is a surface track deposited on the flexible heating device, and in that the rim body compri...