ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,827, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method for calibrating a rain sensor, computer program product, rain sensor system and vehicle" was invented by Plhak Zdenek (Prague), Donald Peyrot (Prague) and Vit Kadubec (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a rain sensor (3), the rain sensor (3) being configured to measure a quantity of rain on a window (101) of a vehicle (100), the rain sensor (3) including a transmitter (4) and a receiver (5), the transmitter (4) being configured to emit or transmit light to the window (101) and the receiver (5) be...