ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,738, issued on Dec. 9.
"Vehicle solar charging system" was invented by Babak Cyrus (Rocklin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar system for a vehicle has an array of solar wings each with a series of interconnected solar panels movable between a retracted configuration in a stack on the vehicle and a deployed configuration extending from the vehicle. Each wing can have a motor and a controller to sequentially deploy and retract each solar wing in the array of solar wings. A drive can be coupled between the motor and the solar panels of a solar wing."
The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2023, under Application No. 18/495,069.
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