ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,841, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle assembly for cleaning sensor" was invented by Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Nicholas Sharpe (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.) and Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle assembly includes a vehicle exterior panel, a nozzle, and a wind panel fixed to the nozzle. The nozzle and the wind panel are movable together along an axis between a retracted axial position concealed behind the vehicle exterior panel and an extended axial position extending outward from the vehicle exte...