ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,891, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle assembly with sensor cleaning" was invented by Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Mohan Kamath (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and John A. Shinska (Dearborn, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle assembly includes a vehicle window, a sprayer positioned above the vehicle window and aimed at the vehicle window, a sensor positioned below the vehicle window, and a deflector positioned to receive fluid from the sprayer and shaped to direct the fluid to the sensor. A single sprayer therefore provide...