ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,087, issued on March 3, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Roof assembly having a roof opening system and an air conditioner" was invented by Magnus Sviberg (Stockdorf, Germany), Maximilian Ehrmann (Stockdorf, Germany), Cedric Langlais (Stockdorf, Germany), Michael Hulsen (Stockdorf, Germany), Juraj Lehotsky (Stockdorf, Germany), Fabian Will (Stockdorf, Germany) and Thomas Podolski (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof assembly for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof assembly has a panel component which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of the vehicle roof, the roof cladding...