US Patent Issued to WEBASTO on Aug. 25 for "Water drainage member for sunroof" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,275, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Water drainage member for sunroof" was invented by Kazuki Kakihara (Hiroshima-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sunroof water drainage member, which is I-shaped and mounted to lie across a sunroof opening, and has a body portion extending the vehicle width, and a pair of water drainage portions on both sides of the body portion in the vehicle width direction. Each water drainage portion may have a main portion connected to the body portion and extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction; a first tip end portion connected to a front end of the main p...