ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,087, issued on June 23, was assigned to Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage (Bobigny, France).

"Telescopic cleaning device, detection system and method for assembling the telescopic cleaning device" was invented by Cyrille Girodot (La Verriere, France) and Loic Roussel (La Verriere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telescopic cleaning device for an optical sensor of a vehicle, including a support sheath, a sprayer body, a sprayer adapted to be movable in translation relative to the sprayer body, with the sprayer body being adapted to be inserted in translation into the sheath and adapted to be attached in the sheath by blocking means. T...