ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,032, issued on July 29, was assigned to Duplicent LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Solar panel system" was invented by Curren Emmett Krasnoff (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar panel system includes a solar module. The solar module includes a housing, a solar panel, and a reflector. The solar panel is supported by the housing. The solar panel is configured to receive incident light and convert a first portion of the incident light to electricity. The reflector is positioned to reflect a second portion of the incident light that was not converted to electricity by the solar panel back at the solar panel."

The pa...