US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 21 for "Sensor-cleaning assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,364, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Sensor-cleaning assembly" was invented by Nicholas Sharpe (Grand Rapids, Mich.), Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.) and Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor-cleaning assembly includes a stationary faceplate having multiple openings. The assembly additionally includes a cylinder defining an axis and abutting the faceplate at a first end of the cylinder. The cylinder can be rotatable about the axis relative to the faceplate in which the cylinder includes a passage from an...