ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,164, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEXTRACKER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Terrain following solar tracker" was invented by Jacob Mark Morin (Phoenix), David Kresse (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Daniel Y Abraham (Oakland, Calif.), Angel Galvan Caride (Madrid) and Jeevan Vadakapuram (Karimnagar, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar tracker, solar array, and method of designing a solar tracker or array including a plurality of piers, a torque tube supported by the piers, each pier having a common reveal from the earth and the torque tube has a relative angle from a first pier to a second pier of between 0.25 and about 0.75 degrees."
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