US Patent Issued to Toyota Jidosha on March 31 for "Mobile object and method for preventing foreign matter from adhering to mobile object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,419, issued on March 31, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Mobile object and method for preventing foreign matter from adhering to mobile object" was invented by Satoshi Toyoshima (Okazaki, Japan), Shiro Oda (Anjo, Japan) and Takeshi Matsui (Nissin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile object is configured to move autonomously. The mobile object includes a sending out unit configured to send out air within the mobile object, a flow path configured to allow the air sent out by the sending out unit to flow, and a sensor configured to detect information around the mobile object, and disposed forward in a bl...