US Patent Issued to FRENELL IP on Dec. 16 for "Solar array with service robot that can travel between solar panels" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,143, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FRENELL IP GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Solar array with service robot that can travel between solar panels" was invented by Max Mertins (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel path is arranged on the end faces of the solar panels and on which a service robot can travel, can rotate in place by a suitable rotational device, and can continue on a line. In this manner, the service robot can travel completely autonomously. For each row of adjacent solar panels, a centering opening is paired with the travel path, wherein the service robot has a centering pin which can engage into t...