ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,739, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Preventing sensor contamination" was invented by Yufeng Wu (Mountain View, Calif.), Nigel Clarke (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Patton (San Francisco), Pedro Martinez Lopez (Mountain View, Calif.) and Forrest Gia-Bao Tran (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes a sensor and an airflow generator coupled to an airflow guide configured to direct airflow from the airflow generator toward and past the sensor. The system includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable storage ...