US Patent Issued to ARRAY TECH on April 15 for "Low-profile backrail module clamp" (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,592, issued on April 15, was assigned to ARRAY TECH INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Low-profile backrail module clamp" was invented by Lucas Creasy (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Nathan Schuknecht (Golden, Colo.) and Benjamin C. De Fresart (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a module clamp of a photovoltaic module support structure may include cutting a folding pattern into a sheet of metal. The folding pattern may include one or more width-wise slits relative to the sheet of metal, one or more length-wise slits relative to the sheet of metal, and a hole. The method may include stamping one or more first features on...