US Patent Issued to ExcelSense Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Apparatus for protecting an optical device from contamination" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,130, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ExcelSense Technologies Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Apparatus for protecting an optical device from contamination" was invented by Nima Nabavi (Vancouver, Canada), Ian Law Bell (North Vancouver, Canada), Joubin Nayeri (Burnaby, Canada) and Colin Alexander Nyuli (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for protecting an optical device from contamination includes a window disposed between the optical device and a contaminating environment, the window is rotatable about a rotational axis and includes a spherical surface. A bezel encloses a portion of the surface and defines a...