US Patent Issued to Waymo on Aug. 5 for "Sensor unit with rotating housing and spoiler for enhanced airflow" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,470, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sensor unit with rotating housing and spoiler for enhanced airflow" was invented by Rutvik Acharya (San Jose, Calif.), Simon Ellgas (San Jose, Calif.), Justin Andrade (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Hou (Shanghai), Andreas Bauer (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhaokun Wang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to a sensor unit with rotating housing and spoiler for enhanced airflow. An example device includes one or more sensors configured to sense one or more aspects of an environment surrounding the device. The device also includes a ...