ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,324, issued on June 23, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive System Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Electrode structure" was invented by Takumi Yamada (Kyoto, Japan), Takateru Sawada (Osaka, Japan) and Hiroshi Naitou (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode structure is an electrode structure to be wound around a rim of a steering wheel provided in a vehicle, the electrode structure including: a base material; a first sensor electrode disposed on one surface of the base material; a second sensor electrode disposed on the one surface of the base material to be aligned with the first sensor electrode; a first harness exte...