ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,186, issued on July 14, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Motor vehicle comprising a roof module and a vehicle body" was invented by Magnus Sviberg (Stockdorf, Germany), Maximilian Ehrmann (Stockdorf, Germany), Cedric Langlais (Stockdorf, Germany) and Michael Huelsen (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle having a roof module having a panel component, which at least partially forms a roof skin of a vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface of the roof module; and a vehicle body. At least one electrical, electronic and/or electromagnetic component is disposed on the veh...