ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,528, issued on March 4, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Roof module for forming a vehicle roof" was invented by Michael Huelsen (Stockdorf, Germany) and Craig T. Marx (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module may have a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof module having at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals for detecting the vehicle environment. At least one reflector element at which the electromagnetic signals c...