US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on May 19 for "Sensor system and sensor unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,729, issued on May 19, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sensor system and sensor unit" was invented by Akinobu Kubota (Shizuoka, Japan), Taishi Hachiya (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaaki Sato (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuhiro Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshihisa Hayami (Shizuoka, Japan), Yusuke Totsuka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masayuki Miwa (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system to be mounted on a vehicle includes a LiDAR, a camera, a housing that accommodates the LiDAR and the camera and a cleaner that is attached to the housing and has at least one nozzle configured to clean a first cleaning target surfa...