ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,970, issued on Sept. 23.
"Heated solar panel device" was invented by Alfonse Ranzie (Bay Shore, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heated solar panel device includes a housing which has a planar attachment surface attached to a roof of a building and a plurality of solar panels is each mounted in the housing. A heating unit is positioned in the housing thereby facilitating the heating unit to heat each of the plurality of solar panels to melt snow and ice that collects on the plurality of solar panels thereby ensuring proper functioning of the plurality of solar panels. A control unit is positioned in the housing and the control ...