ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,934, issued on May 27, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Vehicular camera with lens defogging feature" was invented by Zhongyao Liu (Troy, Mich.), Yuesheng Lu (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Jonathan D. Conger (Huntington Woods, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular camera includes a housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion, with the front housing portion including a lens accommodated by a lens barrel. A heating device is disposed at an outermost lens element of the lens. The heating device includes a heating element and electrically conductive elements that extend along ...