ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,780, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GYS Holding (Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France).

"Support plate for photovoltaic panels" was invented by Yaniv Douieb (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a support plate (10) suitable for attaching and integrating a photovoltaic panel on a roof of a building, said support plate (10) being delimited transversely by a first lateral edge (14) and a second lateral edge (16) and longitudinally by a first upper edge (18) and a second towel edge (20), the support plate (10) comprising an elongation device (46) along at least a transverse direction and/or a longitudinal...