{"id":137417,"date":"2022-03-27T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/teslas-crazy-laser-windshield-wipers-have-been-published-by-the-us-patent-office"},"modified":"2022-03-27T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T18:22:21","slug":"teslas-crazy-laser-windshield-wipers-have-been-published-by-the-us-patent-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/teslas-crazy-laser-windshield-wipers-have-been-published-by-the-us-patent-office","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s crazy laser windshield wipers have been published by the US Patent Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tesla\u2019s idea for a crazy windshield wiper that would clear debris from a driver\u2019s line of sight using a laser beam has been officially published by the United States Patent Office. Tesla filed the application for the patent in May 2019, and it finally was granted in late 2021. Now, the U.S. Patent Office has published the patent, making it publicly viewable.<\/p>\n

Tesla has long been interested in some pretty crazy and revolutionary ideas for automobiles. Over the years, Tesla has looked at several different designs and ideas for windshield wipers<\/a>, using anything from a single-wiper system for the Next-Gen Roadster that would utilize an electromagnetic linear actuator to rid the windshield of moisture, to no wipers at all when it unveiled the Cybertruck in November 2019. Most recent sightings of Tesla\u2019s Cybertruck have indicated the vehicle will have wipers, but Tesla is still revising the design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With all of the crazy ideas Tesla has thrown around for wipers in the past, the patent for the automaker\u2019s \u201cPulsed Laser Cleaning of Debris Accumulated on Glass Articles in Vehicles and Photovoltaic Assemblies<\/a>\u201d is among the most interesting. Originally filed in May 2019<\/a>, Tesla recently had the idea published by the U.S. Patent Office, meaning if the Office does not ultimately grant the patent, the public can still learn from the work and perhaps develop another system that could be granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tesla\u2019s idea for a crazy windshield wiper that would clear debris from a driver\u2019s line of sight using a laser beam has been officially published by the United States Patent Office. Tesla filed the application for the patent in May 2019, and it finally was granted in late 2021. Now, the U.S. Patent Office has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}