ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,470, issued on July 15, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Motor vehicle with a roof module having a cleaning device" was invented by Charles Kroneck (Macomb Township, Mich.) and Magnus Sviberg (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof for a motor vehicle having at least one vehicle window, the roof having a roof module having which forms a vehicle roof of the motor vehicle, the roof module having a panel component, which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface, at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electroma...