US Patent Issued to WEBASTO on Dec. 30 for "Vehicle roof having a roof cladding arrangement and environment sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,160, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Vehicle roof having a roof cladding arrangement and environment sensor" was invented by Andrea Kramer (Stockdorf, Germany), Alexander Kilias (Stockdorf, Germany), Bernhard Schieder (Stockdorf, Germany), Dirk Legler (Stockdorf, Germany) and Michael Deppe (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle roof, in particular of a passenger car, having a roof cladding arrangement and a roof substructure, which is at least partially covered by the roof cladding arrangement, and at least one environment sensor for charting a vehicle environment and another...