ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,314, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Cleaning assembly for vehicle sensors" was invented by Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.), Fabio Ferreira (Hortolandia, Brazil) and Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning assembly includes a first reservoir, a second reservoir, a first pump positioned to pump fluid out of the first reservoir, a second pump positioned to pump fluid out of the second reservoir, a connecting hose fluidly connecting the first reservoir and the second reservoir, and a third pump positioned to con...