ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,249, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Cleaning apparatus, roof module and method for cleaning a viewing area of a motor vehicle" was invented by Maximilian Ehrmann (Stockdorf, Germany), Magnus Sviberg (Stockdorf, Germany) and Andreas Maier (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning apparatus for cleaning at least one viewing area of a motor vehicle, the cleaning apparatus may have at least one cleaning nozzle and an evaluation and control apparatus. The evaluation and control apparatus is configured to receive at least one sensor signal which comprises at least one piece of infor...