MUMBAI, India, Nov. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517094676 A) filed by Autoliv Development Ab, Vargarda, Sweden, on Oct. 1, for 'optical leather on a vehicle steering wheel.'

Inventor(s) include Doursoux, Hugues; and Bertrand, Olivier.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 7, under issue no. 45/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a vehicle steering wheel (1), comprising: - a frame (1a); - a luminous device (40) arranged to emit light towards a user; - a flexible cover element (21) at least partially covering the luminous device (40), the flexible cover element (21) being at least partially permeable to light; and - a support (41) arranged between the frame (1a) and the flexible cover element (21), characterised in that the flexible cover element (21) comprises at least one protrusion (22) arranged at least partially in at least one recess (42) of the support (41)."

The patent application was internationally filed on Apr. 04, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/059115.

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