US Patent Issued to GAF Energy on March 18 for "Mounting apparatus for photovoltaic modules" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,575, issued on March 18, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Mounting apparatus for photovoltaic modules" was invented by Peter Clemente (San Rafael, Calif.), Brian Atchley (Parsippany, N.J.), Brian West (Parsippany, N.J.), Evan Wray (Parsippany, N.J.), Daniel East (Parsippany, N.J.), Mike Kuiper (Parsippany, N.J.), Thierry Nguyen (Parsippany, N.J.) and Richard Perkins (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of photovoltaic modules, each having a mat with an edge and a spacer with an edge, the edge of the mat being attached to the edge of the spacer. The spacer includes a plural...