ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,037, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Sensor cleaning assembly with rotating sensor window" was invented by Rajith Jayaratne (Castro Valley, Calif.), Daniel Glenn Johnson (San Francisco), Arvind Pattabhiraman (Alameda, Calif.), Raghuraman Surineedi (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Bingchao Han (Goleta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes one or more sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor window is disposed in a field of view of the sensor, such that the sensor senses the environment through the sensor window to generate sensor data. The sensor window i...