ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,340, issued on Aug. 19.
"System and method for mooring and anchoring of floating solar arrays on water surface" was invented by Joe Joe Satyaraj Chellakat (Kochi, India) and Rahul Kanotra (Jaipur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) and method for mooring and anchoring of floating solar panels (150) on water surface is disclosed. The system (100) has a floater unit (154) for securing the solar panels (150). The floater unit (154) has securing means (152) along its circumference. Buoys (122, 124, 126, 128) are floated on the surface of the water body such that each buoy is anchored to at least one anchor (142, 144, 146...