ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,990, issued on May 19, was assigned to HS PRODUCTS ENGINEERING GMBH (Maisach, Germany).

"Drive device for driving a roller blind device of a frameless vehicle window" was invented by Martin Specht (Feldafing, Germany), Ullrich Juling (Prien, Germany) and Florian Dorschel (Herrsching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a drive device for driving a roller device of a frameless vehicle window, including a drive rod with an upper roller end for the fixation to a curtain rod of a roller curtain of the roller device and a lower covering end, wherein the drive rod is movably supported between a cover position and a release po...