ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,174, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Roofing system including photovoltaic module wireway cover, and associated method" was invented by Gabriela Bunea (San Jose, Calif.), Richard Perkins (San Jose, Calif.) and Matthew Grigsby (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, including: a roof deck; a first photovoltaic module above the roof deck, where the first photovoltaic module includes: a first solar cell, where the first photovoltaic module includes a first end, a second end opposite the first end; a first wireway portion above the roof deck, where the first wireway portion is proxi...