US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 29 for "Sensor assembly with deflector" (Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,620, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Sensor assembly with deflector" was invented by Vahan Kazandjian (Warrington, Pa.), 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 including an outlet. The sensor assembly includes a sensor window, the sensor window fixed relative to the housing, and the outlet aimed across the sensor window. The sensor assembly includes a flap rotatably coupled to the housing at the outlet. The sensor assembly includes a deflector covering the flap. The flap is disposed be...