ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,178, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Sensor assembly" was invented by Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.) and Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a housing, a sensor unit attached to the housing, and a brush having a plurality of bristles. The sensor unit includes a shell defining a vertical axis. The shell is rotatable around the axis relative to the housing. The shell includes a lower edge and extends upward from the lower edge. The housing inc...