US Patent Issued to MITSUBA, MAZDA MOTOR on April 8 for "Wiper control method and wiper control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,433, issued on April 8, was assigned to MITSUBA Corp. (Gunma, Japan) and MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Wiper control method and wiper control device" was invented by Masahiro Yamada (Gunma, Japan), Takeshi Ikeda (Gunma, Japan), Narimitsu Kobori (Gunma, Japan), Eisuke Iino (Gunma, Japan), Minoru Hoshino (Gunma, Japan), Keisuke Kondou (Hiroshima, Japan) and Ippei Yamauchi (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiper control method and a wiper control device are provided. An arm falling position for stopping wiper arms for a predetermined time is set above a lower reversal position. When the wiper arms stopped on th...