ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,791, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle sensor assembly" was invented by Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.), Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.) and Camila Silva (Salvador, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a bracket fixed to a frame of a vehicle, two environmental sensors fixed to the bracket, and an insulating plate positioned between the environmental sensors and an inside of the vehicle. The sensor assembly may enhance the operation of the environmental sensors. Mounting both environmental sensors...