US Patent Issued to CARRIER on Feb. 11 for "Vibration based actuator system for cleaning of optical surface" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,449, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to CARRIER Corp. (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

"Vibration based actuator system for cleaning of optical surface" was invented by Suman Dwari (Vernon, Conn.), Rajiv Ranjan (South Windsor, Conn.) and Peter R. Harris (West Hartford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanner of an optical detection system includes a housing, an optical surface coupled to the housing, and an actuator coupled to the optical surface. The optical surface is movable to direct light into an area being scanned and to receive a reflected light pulse from the area being scanned. The actuator is operable to agitate the optic...