ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,396, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Device for minimizing soiling of a vehicle environmental sensor" was invented by Michael Schaeuble (Vaihingen An der Enz, Germany), Alan Pfetzer (Buehl, Germany), Alexander Dudek (Offenburg, Germany), Anisha Saxena (Hirschberg, Germany), Daniel Weiler (Ottersweier, Germany), Hubert Lamm (Kappelrodeck, Germany), Johann Klaehn (Mannheim, Germany), Jonas Frick (Mutterstadt, Germany), Marcel Knick (Steinheim, Germany), Oliver Enzmann (Gaggenau, Germany) and Stephan Lenor (Gerlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for minimizing soiling of an...