US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 15 for "Defogging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,377, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Defogging device" was invented by Yuki Yamamoto (Toyota, Japan) and Takahiro Miyadoh (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defogging device includes a heating wire configured to heat a windshield. The heating wire includes a plurality of parallel arrangement portions generally parallel to each other and provided such that respective intermediate parts, in the longitudinal direction, of the parallel arrangement portions are placed inside a field angle region. The parallel arrangement portions include two adjacent parallel arrangement portions provi...