ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,737, issued on March 18, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus for protecting a sensor" was invented by Eun Sik Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for protecting a sensor includes: a housing accommodating the sensor to allow a sensing plane of the sensor to be exposed, and mounted on an installation object, a protective film disposed to face a sensing plane of the sensor, and a moving unit installed in the housing and moving the protective film while the protective film is maintained with respect to the sensing plane of the ...