Robert Kearns, an American engineer, was thoroughly fed up with windscreen wipers. His 1962 Ford Galaxie 500 convertible, like most cars of the era, had two-speed wipers; one setting was a fairly ...
DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. infringed on inventor Robert Kearns' patents for intermittent windshield wipers, a federal jury ruled last week. Kearns invented "blinking" wipers in his basement. The jury ...