Inventor

Robert W Kearns

Patents indexed

Year range

1967

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Years active

1967

Total patents

Most recent

1967

Domains

automotivemechanical

Activity by decade

1960s

Patents

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1 patents, in 1967

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How Intermittent Windshield Wipers Work

Robert Kearns' 1967 patent for the first electronic intermittent windshield wiper system that mimics the human eye's blinking motion.

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