ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,505, issued on June 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and DY AUTO Corp. (Asan-si, South Korea).
"Sensor cleaning apparatus for a vehicle" was invented by Sang Heon Wang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Nak Kyoung Kong (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Dong Eun Cha (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kyung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jung Kwan Choi (Asan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor cleaning apparatus for a vehicle includes: a sensor housing in which a driver and a sensor are mounted, a cover part configured to rotate and exposed to the outside of the sensor hous...