US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on June 3 for "Floating structure for eco-adaptive floating photovoltaic system" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,091, issued on June 3, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Floating structure for eco-adaptive floating photovoltaic system" was invented by Shafiqur Rehman Hafez Waliullah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Kashif Irshad (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohamed A. Mohandes (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ali Ahmad Al-Shaikhi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating solar photovoltaic system and a method for cooling a back surface of a photovoltaic panel are described. The floating solar photovoltaic system includes a rectangular float having a divided top platform and four interc...