ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,803, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to WEBASTO SE (Stockdorf, Germany).
"Fixed roof element for a vehicle roof, comprising a guide rail or other element of a shading system" was invented by Ulrich Schreiber (Stockdorf, Germany), Julian Knopfle (Stockdorf, Germany), Ludwig Stigler (Stockdorf, Germany), Johann Lang (Stockdorf, Germany), Maciej Kaczmarek (Stockdorf, Germany), Moritz Pradella (Stockdorf, Germany) and Eva Huttner (Stockdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixed roof element for a vehicle roof, said fixed roof element having a panel to the underside of which at least one guide rail of a shading system is joine...