US Patent Issued to DENSO ELECTRONICS, DENSO on Sept. 29 for "Wiper control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,890, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to DENSO ELECTRONICS Corp. (Anjo-city, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Wiper control device" was invented by Taiki Soma (Anjo-city, Japan), Yasuo Naruse (Anjo-city, Japan), Manabu Morita (Anjo-city, Japan), Tomokatsu Fuseya (Anjo-city, Japan) and Mitsuyoshi Tomida (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wiper control device includes an acquisition unit, an estimation unit, and a drive unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a value related to a current flowing through a wiper motor that drives a wiper configured to reciprocate between a first position and a...