US Patent Issued to KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE on July 1 for "Air housing apparatus for protecting lens of vehicle-installed optical device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,772, issued on July 1, was assigned to KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Air housing apparatus for protecting lens of vehicle-installed optical device" was invented by Kyoung Won Min (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Haeng Seon Son (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seon Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Young Bo Shim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an air housing apparatus for protecting, from contamination, scratches, damage and the like, a lens and a cover glass which affect the performance of an optical device installed on a vehicle such as a camera and LIDAR. The air hous...