US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 30 for "Roof for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, and motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,312, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Roof for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, and motor vehicle" was invented by Florian Poth (Otterfing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof for a motor vehicle has a roof opening at least partially delimited by a body part of a body of the motor vehicle. The root has a roof element which covers at least a portion of the roof opening, is transparent, is fixed at least indirectly to the body part and covers a water drainage opening, through which water can flow, of the body part at the top in the vertical direction of the vehicle. ...