ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,246, issued on July 8, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Vehicle roof comprising a roof opening system having two kinematic units" was invented by Julian Knopfle (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle roof having a roof opening system having a cover element which is displaceable between a closed position, in which a roof opening is closed, and an open position, in which the roof opening is open; displacement kinematics for displacing the cover element on either side of a vertical longitudinal center roof plane, each displacement kinematics may have a guide rail, a first kinematic unit guided in th...