ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,996, issued on June 10, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).
"Solar roofing system with fiber composite roofing shingles" was invented by William Sirski (San Jose, Calif.), Ray Lu (Parsippany, N.J.), David Kavulak (Fremont, Calif.), Thierry Nguyen (San Francisco), Emma Dohner (San Francisco) and Caleb David Cheung (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of photovoltaic modules configured to be installed on a roof deck and a plurality of roofing shingles. Each of roofing shingles includes a cap layer composed of a first polymer material, and a core layer underneath the cap layer. Th...