US Patent Issued to WEBASTO on Sept. 16 for "Vehicle roof comprising an environment sensor and a cooling feature" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,397, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Vehicle roof comprising an environment sensor and a cooling feature" was invented by Thomas Podolski (Stockdorf, Germany) and Juraj Lehotsky (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle roof, in particular for a passenger car, the vehicle roof having a one-part or multi-part roof skin, at least one environment sensor for detecting a vehicle environment, the environment sensor being disposed below the roof skin and being able to detect the vehicle environment through a sensor see-through area of the roof skin, and a cooling feature for cooling ...