ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,938, issued on May 5, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).
"Sensing apparatus for a vehicle" was invented by Guy Raz (Binyamina, Israel) and Robert Steel (Coventry, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing apparatus for a vehicle includes a window, a wireless sensing circuit, and a controller. The wireless sensing circuit includes a conductive coating coupled to the window. The conductive coating includes an antenna array that is configured to communicate a radio frequency at a phase angle. Further, a controller is in communication with the antenna array and configured to communicate a first signal to the antenn...