ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,972, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"Heated lens" was invented by Shammika Ashan Wickramasinghe (Banbury, Great Britain), Ellis Robert Guzewich (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Simon Baker (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Vinu Thaliath (Huntington beach, Calif.), Siddharth Ravikumar (Irvine, Calif.) and Luis Guillermo Sagastume Pelaez (Fountain Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided. The system can include a lens. The lens can include a carbon nanotube layer. The carbon nanotube layer can be configured to thermally couple with a heating element."
The patent was filed on June...