US Patent Issued to DENSO on Aug. 18 for "Sensor cleaning apparatus,sensor cleaning method, and sensor cleaning program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,248, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Sensor cleaning apparatus,sensor cleaning method, and sensor cleaning program" was invented by Shota Adachi (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor cleaning apparatus detects an object in a vicinity of a vehicle from information acquired by at least one sensor monitoring the vehicle vicinity, detects contamination on the sensor, and continues air cleaning in which high-pressure air is sprayed onto the sensor for a predetermined air cleaning time, in response to detecting that water droplets are attached to a sensor surface of the sensor. The sen...