ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,465, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC.
"Vehicle sensor cleaning" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Michael Kipley (Saline, Mich.), Kimberly Berry (Northville, Mich.), Brendan Francis Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Paul Kenneth Dellock (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable to actuate a cleaning system to spray a sensor in accordance with a cleaning plan stored in the memory, actuate the cleaning system to spray the sensor in response to an...