ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,099, issued on March 18, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).
"Variable airfoil profile hollow wiper arms" was invented by Travis H. Marshall (West Hartford, Conn.), Alexander N. Reid (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Greg A. Seidel (Lakeville, Minn.), Nitin Chandola (Fort Walton Beach, Fla.), Saugata Sarkar (Farmington, Conn.) and Ranadip Acharya (Glastonbury, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiper apparatus includes a wiper axis interface configured for mounting a wiper assembly to a wiper drive. A lower wiper arm extends from the wiper axis interface to a wiper mount that is configured to connect the lower a...