ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,804, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).

"Arrangement for a vehicle roof and vehicle roof" was invented by Richard Seidl (Stockdorf, Germany), Jan Rolwes (Stockdorf, Germany), Julian Knopfle (Stockdorf, Germany), Maciej Kaczmarek (Stockdorf, Germany) and Ludwig Stigler (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for a vehicle roof with a roof opening has a deployment lever with a displacement slider which is pivotable relative to a guide rail. The deployment lever has a first coupling to the guide rail and a second coupling to the guide rail. The second coupling has a lever slot...