US Patent Issued to Tesla on March 31 for "Pulsed laser cleaning of debris accumulated on glass articles in vehicles and photovoltaic assemblies" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,715, issued on March 31, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Pulsed laser cleaning of debris accumulated on glass articles in vehicles and photovoltaic assemblies" was invented by Phiroze Dalal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning system for a vehicle includes a beam optics assembly that emits a laser beam to irradiate a region on a glass article of the vehicle, debris detection circuitry that detects debris accumulated over the region, and control circuitry. The control circuitry calibrates a set of parameters associated with the laser beam emitted from the beam optics assembly based on detection of ...