Windshield wipers are such a simple little thing on the front of your windshield, that it can be easy to underestimate their importance—that is until you get stuck in a rainstorm. In bad weather ...

GREG Kinnear, one of the most underrated utility players in contemporary Hollywood, shines with an awards- caliber glow as an inventor fighting the system in “Flash of Genius.” Currently in first-rate ...

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 ...

Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for using his idea, has died. He was 77. Kearns died of cancer Feb. 9 at ...

Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for using his idea, has died, aged 77, at his home in suburban Baltimore, ...

The origins of even the simplest technology are sometimes best remembered not for the ingenuity of the inventor’s imagination but rather for the endless legal disputes it engendered. In the annals of ...

Here are some of the alternate windshield cleaning methods people employed pre-wipers: Removing the windshield entirely, stopping the vehicle and wiping off the glass before continuing for another 40 ...

DETROIT (AP) -- Robert Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for using his idea, has died. He was 77. Kearns died of ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – For two decades, Robert Kearns waged an obsessive crusade against the auto industry, which he accused of stealing his invention. It destroyed his marriage, brought on a mental ...

For Robert W. Kearns, mechanical engineering has been a lifelong passion. He holds 35 patents in disciplines from guided missile navigational systems to automotive electronics. Yet, the 62-year-old ...