US Patent Issued to WEBASTO on Sept. 22 for "Roller blind arrangement and vehicle roof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,516, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Roller blind arrangement and vehicle roof" was invented by Andreas Rockelmann (Stockdorf, Germany), Georg Rossmair (Stockdorf, Germany) and Tobias Mech (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller blind arrangement for a vehicle roof of a motor vehicle, having a fixed glass element, two mutually opposite guide rails which extend along a longitudinal direction and are each curved such that a distance between the guide rails changes along the longitudinal direction, a roller blind web which is displaceably guided in the guide rails along the long...