US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 9 for "Sintered filter material and grill design to reduce and mitigate wind noise for perception" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,887, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sintered filter material and grill design to reduce and mitigate wind noise for perception" was invented by Michael Asfaw (San Carlos, Calif.), Randall Adams (Livermore, Calif.), Cheng-Han Wu (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Hou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor module comprising a housing defining an internal cavity having a proximal opening and a distal opening, a first barrier that covers the proximal opening of the internal cavity, a second barrier that is positioned between the first barrier and the proximal opening of the internal cavity, at ...