ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,204, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Sensor assembly" was invented by Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Kunal Chaudhari (Westland, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a housing defining a chamber. A sensor unit is supported by the housing and extends vertically upward along an axis from the housing. The sensor unit includes a base and a sensor housing mounted to the base and rotatable relative to the base about the axis. The sensor unit includes a sensor. The sensor housin...