ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,138, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Sensor assembly with cleaning" was invented by Kunal Chaudhari (Westland, Mich.), Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.) and Subba Reddy Boggu (Prakasam Dist/Andhra Pradesh, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a sensor including a sensor window, a cover fixed relative to the sensor, a bracket supporting the sensor, a duct extending around the sensor from an inlet at the cover adjacent to the sensor to an outlet at the cover adjacent to the sensor on an opposite side of the sensor from t...