ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,662, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEXTRACKER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Off-set drive assembly for solar tracker" was invented by Alexander W. Au (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, the present invention provides a solar tracker apparatus configured with an off-set drive assembly. In an example, the apparatus has an inner race structure, which has a cylindrical region coupled to a main body region, the main body comprising an off-set open region. The cylindrical region is an annular sleeve structure coupled to the main body region, which occupies the spatial region within the cylindrical region. In an ex...