US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Maximizing solar panel power generation with shadow energy generation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,476, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Maximizing solar panel power generation with shadow energy generation" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India) and Jagabondhu Hazra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for adjusting an inclination angle of a mirror to maximize power output of an adjacent solar panel and shadow-effect energy generator (SEG). The approach retrieves data associated with a solar irradiance profile and a SEG shadow profile. The approach predicts an irradiance profile based on the data...