US Patent Issued to AVSENSOR on July 29 for "Systems and methods for sensing environmental conditions surrounding photovoltaic systems" (Hawaii, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,598, issued on July 29, was assigned to AVSENSOR LLC (Mont Vernon, N.H.).

"Systems and methods for sensing environmental conditions surrounding photovoltaic systems" was invented by Christopher Thomas Needham (Mountain View, Hawaii) and Frank Carl Oudheusden (Mont Vernon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensors are installed on a solar photovoltaic (PV) tracker project to monitor the movement of solar PV trackers, primarily under wind loading but also during normal tracking operation. The monitoring establishes a baseline performance of the system. Once this baseline is established, the system is monitored for any deviation from ...