US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on Nov. 18 for "High-concentrating photovoltaic system with backplate support" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,859, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"High-concentrating photovoltaic system with backplate support" was invented by Fahad Gallab Al-Amri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The HCPV system includes a plurality of modules connected to an array, a casing, a plurality of inverted pyramids, a plurality of solar cells, and a backplate. Each module includes an optical component that concentrates light onto a single solar cell and a single inverted pyramid with solid lateral faces connects the optical component at a peripheral edge of a base of the pyramid t...