ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,437, issued on April 8, was assigned to NURO INC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Sensor cleaning mechanism for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Yuzhou Lucy Zhuang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Jon Kardassakis (Mountain View, Calif.), Joseph Penniman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ryan Tyler Mackintosh (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor cleaning mechanism is provided herein. At least one sensor is configured to observe a condition associated with a vehicle. A housing is configured to be mounted on the vehicle. The housing includes a window surface configured to be disposed substantially within a field of view of the ...