ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,233, issued on July 14, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Pane arrangement for a vehicle roof, and vehicle roof for a vehicle" was invented by Markus Walter Pohlen (Stockdorf, Germany) and Olivier Farreyrol (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pane arrangement for a vehicle roof may have a first pane element which has a first main face and a second main face which is opposite the first main face along a stacking direction, a second pane element which has a third main face and has a fourth main face which is opposite the third main face along the stacking direction, the second pane element being coupled...