ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,891, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a wiper, computing unit and vehicle" was invented by Gerald Maier (Ottersweier-Unzhurst, Germany) and Robert-Jan van de Rovaart (Ottersweier, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a wiper (12) of a vehicle (10) having at least one autonomous driving mode is proposed, wherein the autonomous driving mode is based at least on sensor data of at least one sensor (14) of the vehicle (10), wherein the wiper (12) comprises an automated, in particular autonomous, sensor safety mode, in which an uninterrupted and/or f...