US Patent Issued to WEBASTO on Sept. 16 for "Roof module for forming a vehicle roof comprising an adjustable cleaning nozzle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,570, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Roof module for forming a vehicle roof comprising an adjustable cleaning nozzle" was invented by Cedric Langlais (Stockdorf, Germany) and Nikolaus Linner (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof module for a motor vehicle roof having a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof and serves as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through a see-through area for detecting a vehicle environment aroun...