ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,163, issued on July 1, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Vehicle window with lighting unit" was invented by Robert Pasquarelli (Stockdorf, Germany), Thomas Weiderer (Stockdorf, Germany) and Stefan Groitl (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle window arrangement has an outer face facing a vehicle environment and an inner face facing a vehicle interior and being parallel to the outer face. A light-conducting layer forms the inner face. The vehicle window has a lighting unit and at least one light input unit having at least one light input element is disposed on the inner face which couples light emi...