Inventors' Stolen Patents Is there anyone who can help me to translate this text in French please? Est -ce qu'il y a quelqun qui pourra m'aider de traduire ce texte en francais SVP? Inventors' Stolen Patents R.w Kearns (1927--2005) was a talented violinist, and a member of the Office of Strategic Services. After earning engineering degrees and a doctorate, he invented the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. The inspiration for his invention stems from an incident on his wedding night in 1953, when an errant champagne cork shot into his left eye. A decade later Kearns was driving his Ford Galaxie through a light rain, and the constant movement of the wiper blades irritated his already troubled vision. He modelled his mechanism on the human eye, which blinks every few seconds, rather than continuously. He tried to interest the "Big Three" auto makers in licensing the technology. They all rejected his proposal, yet began to install intermittent wipers in their cars, beginning in 1969. He sued Ford Motor Company in 1978 and Chrysler Corporation in 1982 for patent infringement. The Ford case went to trial in 1990. Ford lost and settled with Kearns for US$10.1 million. The Chrysler verdict was decided in 1992 and was a victory for Kearns , who received approximately US$ 30 million in compensation for Chrysler's patent infringement. Many other inventors fought long battles to enforce their patents as Dr. Kearns did, among them Serbian-American , Nikola Tesla invented fluorescent lighting , the induction motor, and developed the alternating current (AC) electrical supply, system that included a motor and transformer, and 3-phase electricity. He was the true inventor of radio but Italian G. Marconi successfully claimed he was and was questionably awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909.