ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,867, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Sensor assembly" was invented by Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.), Alexander Petniunas (Canton, Mich.) and Subba Reddy Boggu (Prakasam Dist, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a housing, a sensor unit attached to the housing, and a gutter fixed relative to the housing. The sensor unit includes a cylindrical shell defining a vertical axis. The cylindrical shell extends above a highest point of the hou...