# Robert W Kearns — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Robert W Kearns has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Intermittent Windshield Wipers Work](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/3351836/intermittent-windshield-wiper-kearns) — granted 1967
  Robert Kearns' 1967 patent for the first electronic intermittent windshield wiper system that mimics the human eye's blinking motion.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/robert-w-kearns

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