ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,390, issued on July 8, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).
"Solar shingle and associated roofing system and method" was invented by Natasha Hjerrild (Berkeley, Calif.), Nathan Peterson (Oakland, Calif.) and David Kavulak (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roofing system, includes: a roof deck; a first roofing shingle installed on the roof deck, where the first roofing shingle comprises a reveal portion and a head lap portion; a first step flap installed on the roof deck; and a first solar shingle installed on the roof deck, where the first solar shingle includes: a reveal portion, where the reveal portion i...