ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,382, issued on June 2, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Convertible arrangement having a convertible top box lid arrangement" was invented by Heinrich Wullrich (Stockdorf, Germany) and Alexander Haimerl (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A convertible arrangement having a convertible top box lid arrangement, which has a lid element, a support frame on which the lid element is mounted, and a kinematics unit on each of both sides with respect to a vertical longitudinal lid center plane, the kinematics unit pivoting the lid element together with the support frame between a closed position closing a conver...