ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,468, issued on July 15, was assigned to KAUTEX TEXTRON GmbH & Co. KG (Bonn, Germany).

"Method for determining a cleaning strategy for cleaning a surface to be cleaned of a motor vehicle, cleaning method, use of a cleaning strategy, cleaning system and motor vehicle" was invented by Chris Davies (Cardiff Wales, Great Britain), Stephen Llion (Holyhead Wales, Great Britain), Axel Barkow (Hurth, Germany) and Daniel Dreschers (Siegburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a cleaning strategy for cleaning a surface to be cleaned of a motor vehicle. The surface to be cleaned is selected in dependence of a cleanin...