ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,214, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Control for passive wiper system" was invented by Graham Doorley (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Thomas Hansen Karplus (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Peter Avram (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a dome, a wiper assembly, a position sensor and a control device. The wiper assembly includes a wiper blade configured to rotate around the dome. The position sensor may be configured to send a signal to a control device when a wiper blade passes the position sensor. The control device may include one or more processors configured to receive the s...