US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Dec. 30 for "System and method for cleaning sensors of autonomous vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,026, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"System and method for cleaning sensors of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Hongen Tu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wesley Newhouse (San Francisco), Brian Gilbert (Fairfax, Calif.), Devin Cass (San Francisco) and Jason Seitz (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An AV sensor can be cleaned by charging a conductive layer over a sensor surface. The conductive layer may be positively or negatively charged and can repel contaminants having the same polarity away from the sensor. The charging of the conductive layer can be triggered by a determination t...