US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on July 8 for "Integrated waterless photovoltaic cleaning mechanism" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,397, issued on July 8, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Integrated waterless photovoltaic cleaning mechanism" was invented by Abdullah Saeed Almarfoie (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah Thagib Alshalan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Fahad Abdulaziz Alsulaiman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Amir Al-Ahmed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning system for a photovoltaic surface includes one or more of an electrostatic dust repellant, a vacuum device, and a compressed air spray device, powered by the photovoltaic array, and configured to function when the photovoltaic...