ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,374, issued on May 5, was assigned to Rosemount Aerospace Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Adjustable blade load mechanism for cantilever beam wiper arm assembly" was invented by Vishwanath Hitnalli (Bangalore, India), Venkata Anilkumar Mothe (Bangalore, India) and Phani Srinivas Nouduri (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A windshield wiper system has a drive arm with a drive shaft connector, a curved cantilever beam, and a wiper blade assembly. The drive arm is configured to connect to a drive shaft at the drive shaft connector. The curved cantilever beam is connected to the drive arm with a first drive arm fastener and a move...