US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on June 30 for "Heating cover for a LiDAR sensor and a manufacturing method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,585, issued on June 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Heating cover for a LiDAR sensor and a manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Kyoung-Chun Kweon (Seoul, South Korea) and Seon-Yong An (Chuncheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating cover for a LiDAR sensor includes a plastic cover layer and a heating film attached to a back surface of the plastic cover layer. In the heating film, an indium tin oxide (ITO) thin film layer is formed on a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film. Respective line electrodes are arranged along both long sides on ...