US Patent Issued to WEBASTO on Sept. 16 for "Roof module for forming a vehicle roof having a rotatable environment sensor" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,464, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Roof module for forming a vehicle roof having a rotatable environment sensor" was invented by Rudolf Dietl (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof module for forming a motor vehicle roof, the roof module having a panel component which may at least partially form a roof skin of the vehicle roof, which functions as an outer sealing surface of the roof module and which as at least one curved area. The roof module having at least one environment sensor which sends and/or receives electromagnetic signals for detecting a vehicle environment. The e...