US Patent Issued to ZF AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY GERMANY on April 21 for "Lighting unit for a steering handle of a motor vehicle, and steering handle having such a lighting unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,084, issued on April 21, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY GERMANY GMBH (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

"Lighting unit for a steering handle of a motor vehicle, and steering handle having such a lighting unit" was invented by Mathias Cibis (Heigenbrucken, Germany) and Steffen Neuf (Rieneck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a lighting unit for a steering handle of a motor vehicle, which extends in a longitudinal direction (s), having: multiple lighting segments (22) situated one behind the other in the longitudinal direction (s); a diffusor (24), which forms an outer side (26) of the lighting unit (18) and...