ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,910, issued on April 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for cleaning a sensor" was invented by Kyung Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sang Heon Wang (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Dong Eun Cha (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Nak Kyoung Kong (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cleaning a sensor includes: at least one fluid flow path unit assembled and arranged to correspond to a size and a field of view (FOV) region of a sensor unit and formed with a spray flow path for flowing a fluid supplied through an inlet nozzle, a cover unit...