ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,828, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).
"Positive lock for parked wiper" was invented by Muralidhar Rao Bojjanapalli (Hyderabad, India) and Santosh Hiriyannaiah (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A windshield wiper system for an aircraft includes a wiper arm and a wiper shaft with a first end connected to a base of the wiper arm. An electric motor is coupled to the wiper shaft to rotationally drive the wiper shaft. The windshield wiper system also includes a brake system. The brake system includes an electromagnet comprising an energized mode and a de-energized mode. The brake...