ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,156, issued on March 3, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Roof module having a sealing assembly and method for fixating a sealing assembly" was invented by Lorenz Muller (Stockdorf, Germany), Giedrius Mikutis (Stockdorf, Germany), Cedric Langlais (Stockdorf, Germany) and Nikolaus Linner (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module having a panel component, which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of the vehicle roof, and having an opening in which at least one environment sensor is disposed within a casing, the environment senso...