ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,985, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Webasto SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Roof module for forming a vehicle roof" was invented by Michael Huelsen (Stockdorf, Germany), Cedric Langlais (Stockdorf, Germany), Maximilian Ehrman (Stockdorf, Germany), Juraj Lehotsky (Stockdorf, Germany), Heinrich Wullrich (Stockdorf, Germany), Thomas Podolski (Stockdorf, Germany) and Nikolaus Linner (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle roof module having a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof and serves as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, and at least one en...