US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on May 5 for "Low profile energy absorption strap lock mechanism" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,449, issued on May 5, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Low profile energy absorption strap lock mechanism" was invented by Shenbing (Assur) Wen (Suzhou, China), Yanyan Chen (Suzhou, China), Guohui Hou (Zhoukou, China) and Hongwei (Kevin) Song (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering column assembly includes a lower jacket. The steering column assembly also includes an upper jacket disposed within the lower jacket and being telescopingly adjustable relative to the lower jacket. The steering column assembly further includes a telescope drive assembly. The telescope drive assembly inc...