US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle camera lens cleaning system with swirl flow generator" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,669, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle camera lens cleaning system with swirl flow generator" was invented by Kothamasi Sumithra Raju (Bengaluru, India), Yuchuan Liu (Troy, Mich.), Julien P. Mourou (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Zhe Li (Rochester, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle camera lens cleaning system includes a camera configured to be mounted to a vehicle and including a lens; an ultrasonic cleaning system adapted to vibrate the lens; a source of pressurized air; an air flow passage connected to the source of pressurize air; an annular duct connected to the ai...