ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,159, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Vehicle roof comprising a roof skin assembly and a sensor module" was invented by Michael Huelsen (Stockdorf, Germany), Michael Respondek (Stockdorf, Germany), Dirk Legler (Stockdorf, Germany), Sascha Dietrich (Stockdorf, Germany), Johannes Thannheimer (Stockdorf, Germany), Thomas Columbus (Stockdorf, Germany), Andrea Kramer (Stockdorf, Germany) and Michael Deppe (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle roof having a roof skin assembly, a roof substructure, which is disposed below the roof skin assembly, and at least one sensor module having...