US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle steering wheel lighting device having a compact design and light guide" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,565, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Vehicle steering wheel lighting device having a compact design and light guide" was invented by Boubacar Sagna (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light bar for a vehicle steering wheel, comprising: a plurality of light sources, such as LEDs, a diffuser arranged to diffuse light coming from the plurality of light sources towards an occupant of the vehicle, a light guide, which is arranged between the plurality of light sources and the diffuser and comprises a common exit surface and a plurality of optical portions each having an entry surface arra...