US Patent Issued to BRIGHTNIGHT POWER on Dec. 2 for "Optimization of photovoltaic soiling model parameters" (Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,162, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BRIGHTNIGHT POWER LLC (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

"Optimization of photovoltaic soiling model parameters" was invented by Cedric Leroy (Austin, Texas) and Marc Hermann (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing a parameter set for a photovoltaic (PV) soiling model including executing the PV soiling model with a first plurality of parameter sets using as input wash data to generate first predicted energy loss data, calculating first losses based on a difference between the first predicted energy loss data and time-series sensor data, executing a parameter-tuning mod...