ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,383, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Sensor assembly" was invented by Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.) and Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a housing shaped to be mounted to a vehicle. The sensor assembly includes a first nozzle positioned on the housing and below the sensor and is positioned to dispense a fluid in an upward direction to a surface of the sensor. The sensor assembly includes a second nozzle positioned below the sensor, in which the second nozzle is positioned to disp...