US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods to detect droplet presence on vehicle windshield" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,890, issued on Sept. 22.

"Systems and methods to detect droplet presence on vehicle windshield" was invented by Robert Schroeter (Livonia, Mich.), Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle having a windshield and a camera is disclosed. The camera may be configured to capture a first image of a vehicle surrounding area through the windshield. The vehicle may further include an image processing module configured to determine a plurality of gradients associated with a plurality of pixels in the first image and an unfocused object present in the first image based on...