US Patent Issued to OMCO SOLAR on July 1 for "Method of determining and responding to an overcast sky condition in a solar tracker installation" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,447, issued on July 1, was assigned to OMCO SOLAR LLC (Phoenix).

"Method of determining and responding to an overcast sky condition in a solar tracker installation" was invented by Matt Kesler (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining and responding to an overcast sky condition during daylight hours in a solar tracker installation utilizing a single, fixed-position irradiance sensor associated with a set of solar tracker assemblies of the solar tracker installation and, if a series of irradiance levels communicated by the irradiance sensor to an array controller of a solar tracker control system of the installati...