ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,598, issued on June 17, was assigned to Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC (Yerevan, Armenia).

"System for and method of cleaning a surface of a sensor on a self-driving car" was invented by Sergey Aleksandrovich Badanov (Moscow), Viktor Igorevich Zavadskii (Moscow), Gleb Olegovich Mishugin (Moscow) and Mikhail Vladimirovich Khalizov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a delivery unit for a cleaning system and a method of operation. The delivery unit has a liquid nozzle for delivering a liquid jet and directing the liquid jet towards a surface of a sensor system, an air nozzle for delivering an air jet and directing the air je...