ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,511, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Roof for a motor vehicle having a sensor system for detecting a vehicle environment" was invented by Markus Gey (Stockdorf, Germany), Stephan Buckl (Stockdorf, Germany) and Fabian Will (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, having a roof skin which is disposed above a roof substructure and having a sensor system which has at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment. The roof has a cooling device for the sensor module, said cooling...