ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,010, issued on July 22, was assigned to WISTRON Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Wiping apparatus" was invented by Shun-Chi Yeh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Fu-Hua Yan (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ze-Shan Yan (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Long Mo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiping apparatus includes a wiping mechanism, a sensor set, and a conveying mechanism. The sensor set includes a first station sensor, the first station sensor corresponds to the wiping mechanism, and the first station sensor is configured to generate a first station signal. The conveying mechanism corresponds to the wiping mechanism, the conveying mechanism ...