US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Sensor assembly with cleaning" (Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,514, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Sensor assembly with cleaning" was invented by Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Tony Misovski (Oxford, Mich.), Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.) and Vahan Kazandjian (Warrington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a housing including an outlet, a sensor including a sensor window, and a flap rotatably coupled to the housing at the outlet. The sensor window is fixed to the housing. The outlet is aimed across the sensor window. The flap is ro...