US Patent Issued to Zoox on Jan. 27 for "Efficient thermal regulation and/or cleaning of vehicle sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,048, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Efficient thermal regulation and/or cleaning of vehicle sensors" was invented by Da Liu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Daniel Glenn Johnson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to techniques for improving sensor cleaning techniques. The techniques described herein utilize heat generated by multiple heat generating components of a vehicle, which is normally wasted. The techniques collect the waste heat to heat fluid stored in a reservoir. The heated fluid is further dispensed to heat and/or clean sensors. In some examples, a vehicle imp...