ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,667, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage (La Verriere, France).
"Rear wiper assembly" was invented by Qiang Zhang (Shanghai), Tieqiang Yao (Jiangsu, China) and Xu Cheng (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a rear wiper assembly having a rear wiper arm, a cover, a joint, and a motion-stopping mechanism. A connector and a cover are hingedly connected to the rear end of the rear wiper arm. When the cover is in a closed state, it covers the connector; the motion-stopping mechanism has a first interference element and a second interference element, at least one of the interference elements being a fl...