ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,539, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Sensor cleaning system" was invented by Seung Hyun Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Hae Jun Jeong (Siheung-si, South Korea), Yoon Geun Cho (Daegu, South Korea) and Je Yeon Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor cleaning system for cleaning an environment sensor includes: an air cleaning system configured to clean an environment sensor by spraying compressed air; a washer fluid cleaning system configured to clean the environment sensor by spraying washer fluid onto the environment sensor; a su...