US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 16 for "Sensor cleaning control device and method based on recognition of surrounding objects around a vehicle" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,654, issued on June 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Sensor cleaning control device and method based on recognition of surrounding objects around a vehicle" was invented by Heui-Jae Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor cleaning control device and method are based on recognition of surrounding objects around a vehicle. The control device and method are applied to a vehicle and consider an object recognized in scattering areas where contamination occurs due to a fluid sprayed from a nozzle to clean blockages or contamination on sensing po...