ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,000, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Roof module having a transmitter and/or receiver apparatus" was invented by Magnus Sviberg (Stockdorf, Germany), Maximilian Ehrmann (Stockdorf, Germany), Cedric Langlais (Stockdorf, Germany) and Michael Huelsen (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof module having a panel component which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of a vehicle roof, which functions as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, and has a viewing area, wherein at least one transmitter and/or receiver apparatus of an environment sensor is disposed directly and w...