US Patent Issued to Magna Exteriors on Sept. 1 for "Hydrophilic material and coating for automotive lidar sensor covers" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,122, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Magna Exteriors Inc. (Aurora, Canada).

"Hydrophilic material and coating for automotive lidar sensor covers" was invented by Wing Li Pao (Oshawa, Canada), Long Li (Oshawa, Canada), Martin Agelin-Chaab (Oshawa, Canada), Julian Knutzen (Aurora, Canada) and Alexis Baltazar-Y-Jimenez (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weather resistant autonomous driving sensor unit for an autonomous vehicle driving system. The sensor unit further includes a cover having an inside surface facing the one or more light detection and ranging sensors, and an external surface facing an external environment of...