ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,433, issued on April 14, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for environmental control of vehicle sensing systems" was invented by Bayard G. Gardineer IV (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical apparatus including a housing having a window, the housing configured to accommodate a laser emitting device configured to emit laser pulses to an outside of the optical apparatus through the window; a fan configured to generate an airflow; and a conditioning element having a plurality of fins defining a first portion configured to receive the airflow from the fan, the contoured fi...