ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,514, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DUSTOSS LTD. (Har Adar, Israel).
"Wind-cleaned photovoltaic solar panel" was invented by Hadar Sefi (Har Adar, Israel), Yoel Sefi (Har Adar, Israel) and Lidor Mazouz (Har Adar, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wind-cleaned photovoltaic solar panel (10) has an array of photovoltaic cells (12) under a panel surface (14). A two-dimensional array of cleaning elements (18) are anchored to the panel surface at cleaning-array locations (20) on the panel surface, at least one of which is spaced away from edges of the panel. Each of the cleaning elements (18) is an elongated wind-displaceable eleme...