US Patent Issued to Hortech on Oct. 7 for "Bracket assembly for solar panels" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,206, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hortech Inc. (Spring Lake, Mich.).

"Bracket assembly for solar panels" was invented by Leo V. Gartland (Norton Shores, Mich.), John Scholten (Grandville, Mich.) and David S. MacKenzie (Nunica, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar panel and irrigation arrangement support assembly includes first and second elongated rails each configured to be supported by a roof surface, the first elongated rail including a first longitudinally-extending channel, a plurality of vertical legs each having a first end coupled to at least one of the first and second elongated rails, and a second end, a support...