ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,771, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).
"Cleaning device for a window pane" was invented by Thomas Reiter (Ferschitz, Austria), Georg Pitterle (Kirnberg an der Mank, Austria) and Christian Jackl (Wieselburg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cleaning device (20) for a lens glass (10) in particular of a vehicle, with an optically transparent lens glass (10), with a hydrophobic and dirt-repelling, optically transparent coating (25), which is applied on an outer side (11) of the lens glass (10), with at least one vibration element (21), which is coupled with the lens gl...