US Patent Issued to ARRAY TECH on Sept. 9 for "Snap-lock photovoltaic module mounting system" (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,181, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ARRAY TECH INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Snap-lock photovoltaic module mounting system" 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 photovoltaic (PV) module clamp may be configured to interface with a torque tube and a PV module rail fixedly coupled to a PV module. The PV module clamp may include a seating portion made of two or more lateral walls and a base surface. A clamp body of the PV module clamp may be coupled to the seating portion. The clamp body may include a shape corr...