ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,984, issued on March 25, was assigned to BLADES GALORE LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Placement and heating enhancement of windshield wipers for vehicle protection, including rearview mirror wipers" was invented by Barbara Martina Ebey (San Jose, Calif.) and Sidney Bell (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visibility enhancement system for a vehicle with heating conduit and a method of making a windshield wiper system where a wiper blade is configured to wipe windshield of the vehicle, a wiper blade assembly holds at least one end of the wiper blade, a motor is configured to move the wiper blade upon activation of the visibility enha...