ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,081, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle windshield wiper" was invented by Takashi Umeno (Kariya, Japan) and Takashi Matsui (Iwakura, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle windshield wiper includes a wiper blade that wipes a wiped surface, and a wiper arm, connected to the wiper blade, that transmits driving force for a wiping operation to the wiper blade. A washer nozzle, supplying a washer fluid to the wiped surface by spraying, is integrally provided in the wiper arm or the wiper blade. When an end portion in a longitudinal direction on a side that coincides with a tip end portion of t...