ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,940, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to DENSO ELECTRONICS Corp. (Anjo-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 and an estimation unit. The estimation 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 second position. The estimation unit is configured to es...