US Patent Issued to Preh on April 21 for "Steering wheel with adaptive-capacitive touch recognition, an associated assembly and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,229, issued on April 21, was assigned to Preh GmbH (Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale, Germany).

"Steering wheel with adaptive-capacitive touch recognition, an associated assembly and motor vehicle" was invented by Manfred Schneider (Oberthulba, Germany) and Lutz Doebrich (Neuhaus am Rennweg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering wheel for a motor vehicle is presented. The steering wheel includes a steering wheel hub configured for the detachable attachment to a steering shaft of the motor vehicle; a steering wheel rim fixed to the steering wheel hub; at least one electrode, which is integrated into the steering wheel rim, for the...