US Patent Issued to NEXTRACKER on Nov. 4 for "Systems for and methods of positioning solar panels in an array of solar panels to efficiently capture sunlight" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,183, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NEXTRACKER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Systems for and methods of positioning solar panels in an array of solar panels to efficiently capture sunlight" was invented by Yudong Ma (Richmond, Calif.), Francesco Borrelli (Kensington, Calif.), Allan Daly (Albany, Calif.) and Yang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar tracking system comprises multiple solar panel modules forming a grid of solar panel modules, wherein the multiple solar panel modules are orientatable to a solar source independently of each other; and a control system configured to orient each of the multiple sol...