US Patent Issued to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS on Nov. 25 for "Systems and techniques for deicing sensors" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,043, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and techniques for deicing sensors" was invented by Anurup Guha (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Amanda Lind (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for deicing/defrosting an ultrasonic sensor using frequency tuning. An example method can include determining that a radiation surface of a housing of an acoustic sensor includes a layer of frozen precipitation, wherein the housing contains a transducer configured to emit sound waves through the radiation surface and receive sound waves that are reflected from a targ...