ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,446, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Wiper blade" was invented by Takehiko Aoyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Hidekazu Matsuda (Shizuoka, Japan), Syoji Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Arihiro Yamamoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Masanori Yokoyama (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shota Segawa (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiper blade comprising: a hand grip portion; and an elastic portion supported by the hand grip portion and that is pressed against a surface to be cleaned; the elastic portion having, on a tip side, a main surface opposing a member to be cleaned, and a tip surface that forms a tip side edge together with the ...