US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 15 for "Sensor assembly with cleaning" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,469, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Sensor assembly with cleaning" was invented by Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.), Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Fabio Ferreira (Hortolandia, Brazil) and Henrico Quinelato (Pituacu, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Upon determining an autonomous mode for a vehicle is activated, a motor is actuated to move a wiper across a windshield in a low mode based on determining to clean the windshield. A blower is actuated to direct air across a sensor. Then, after expiration of a first timer, a pump is ac...