US Patent Issued to AutoX on Nov. 3 for "Steering wheel hiding system, method, and vehicle" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,286, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AutoX Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Steering wheel hiding system, method, and vehicle" was invented by Jianxiong Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Kai Wang (Shenzhen, China), Conghe Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Jinheng Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel hiding system for a vehicle is provided. By acquiring the driving state of the vehicle, determine whether the vehicle is in an autonomous driving state. After determining that the driving state is an autonomous driving state, control the folding of the steering wheel assembly and the movement of the column, and control...