ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,075, issued on May 6, was assigned to PEGASUS SOLAR INC (Richmond, Calif.).
"Twist-lock solar module clamp" was invented by Erich Kai Stephan (Richmond, Calif.), Glenn Harris (Richmond, Calif.), Peter Wilke (Richmond, Calif.), Nicholas Wenzel (Richmond, Calif.) and James Hsieh (Richmond, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A twist-lock clamp to attach a solar module to a rail system includes a spring between a top clamp and a t-nut, with features on the spring and top clamp to restrict rotation relative to each other. The t-nut includes features allowing rotation of about 90 degrees when the t-nut is inserted in a rail, but restric...