US Patent Issued to BrightNight Power on April 8 for "Land usability metric generation for photovoltaic systems" (Florida, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,661, issued on April 8, was assigned to BrightNight Power LLC (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

"Land usability metric generation for photovoltaic systems" was invented by Cedric Leroy (Austin, Texas), Marc Hermann (West Palm Beach, Fla.) and Egor Sanin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include retrieving, from a geographic database, geographic information of a geographic area, segmenting the geographic area into one or more regions, executing a buildability algorithm using as input the geographic information to determine buildable portions of the one or more regions, executing a PV array placement algorithm using as ...