ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,322, issued on April 14, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Cleaner system" was invented by Tatsuya Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan), Shota Yonemaru (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazuhiro Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaner system includes a cleaner including a nozzle having a jetting port for jetting a cleaning medium to a surface to be cleaned of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the cleaner. The nozzle is rotatable or slidingly movable in an operation state of the cleaner. The control unit is configured to change a movable range of the nozzle ac...