US Patent Issued to Magna Car Top Systems on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle roof having an openable folding roof with a tensioning cable system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,340, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Magna Car Top Systems GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Vehicle roof having an openable folding roof with a tensioning cable system" was invented by Thorsten Schumacher (Kummerfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle roof including an openable folding roof and a tensioning cable which tensions the folding roof in the closed state. One front end of the cable is fixedly anchored to a front roof part of the folding roof and at the rear end is held on a rear roof component which is fixed to the vehicle. The tensioning cable is length-adjustable for adjusting the cable tension via...