US Patent Issued to NEXTRACKER on July 1 for "Systems and methods for split-cell and multi-panel photovoltaic tracking control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,179, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEXTRACKER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for split-cell and multi-panel photovoltaic tracking control" was invented by Fei Gu (Fremont, Calif.), Yang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Venkata Rahul Abbaraju (Fremont, Calif.) and Eric Martinez (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Split-cell and multi-panel photovoltaic backtracking control systems and methods allow for increased total power generation during low sun elevation conditions by shading a percentage of panel modules, thereby allowing for a lower angle of incidence on unshaded modules. The control systems and method...