ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,561, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Sensor assembly" was invented by Alexander Petniunas (Canton, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), James Robert Hurd III (Northville, Mich.), Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Daniel Klevorn (Westland, Mich.) and Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a housing and a sensor unit attached to the housing. The sensor unit includes a cylindrical shell defining a vertical axis and rotatable around the axis relative to the housing. The cylindrical shell extends upward along the ax...