US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Feb. 4 for "Compressor cooling system for cleaning a vehicle sensor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,759, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Compressor cooling system for cleaning a vehicle sensor" was invented by Young Dug Yang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a compressor cooling system for cleaning a vehicle sensor, the system including: a rainwater sensor unit provided on a front window of a vehicle for detecting rainwater; a rainwater collection unit for collecting the rainwater flowing down to under the front window; a water pump unit connected to the rainwater collection unit for discharging the collected rainwater to a...