ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,349, issued on June 3, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Vehicle roof with sensor module and trim element" was invented by Michael Huelsen (Stockdorf, Germany) and Freddy Geeraerds (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle roof having a roof skin arrangement which may have at least one cover element and the vehicle roof having at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment which is at least partially covered by the cover element, the cover element being limited by an edge gap via which air, in particular cooling air, for the sensor module flows u...