US Patent Issued to WEBASTO on May 19 for "Openable vehicle roof comprising a lid element, a fixed roof element and a weather-strip assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,999, issued on May 19, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Openable vehicle roof comprising a lid element, a fixed roof element and a weather-strip assembly" was invented by Stefan Schaufler (Stockdorf, Germany) and Andreas Josef Zunzer (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An openable vehicle roof having a fixed roof element and a roof opening system having a movable lid, the fixed roof element having with a weather-strip assembly at its front and lateral edges, a rear edge of the lid element being adjacent to a transverse leg of the weather-strip assembly of the fixed roof element when in the closed positi...