US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 18 for "Systems and methods for detecting failure of spring contacts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,575, issued on March 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting failure of spring contacts" was invented by Yi-Heng Sen (San Jose, Calif.) and Noah Lassar (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring and detecting partial or full mechanical failures of a spring contact configured to provide an electrical connection between two elements. In some examples, a spring contact may be arranged between a first element, such as a window or cover of an operational sensor, and a second element, such as a printed circuit board. The window or cover may have a...