ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,314, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Detecting and mitigating window condensation" was invented by Mohammad Naserian (Windsor, Canada) and Allan Kenneth Lewis (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting and mitigating window condensation for a vehicle includes an interior camera and a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The system also includes a controller in electrical communication with the interior camera and the HVAC system. The controller is programmed to determine an opacity of a first window of the vehicle using the interior ca...