ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,523, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Sensor apparatus with cleaning" was invented by Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.), Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.) and Navvab Khajehosseini (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor apparatus includes a sensor including a sensor lens, an air nozzle fixed relative to the sensor lens and positioned to direct airflow out of the air nozzle across the sensor lens, and a fin positioned inside the air nozzle. The fin is...