US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Rotatable sensor assembly with elastomeric flap" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,040, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Rotatable sensor assembly with elastomeric flap" was invented by Sunil Reddy Patil (Troy, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.) and Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a housing, a sensor unit attached to the housing, and an elastomeric flap. The sensor unit includes a shell defining a vertical axis. The shell is rotatable around the axis relative to the housing. The shell includes a lower edge and extends upward along the axis from the lower...