ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,587, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PRINCE MOHAMMAD BIN FAHD UNIVERSITY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Solar panel system for operation in airborne particulate environment" was invented by Faramarz Djavanroodi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Shaik Feroz (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Fouad Mohmmed Jastaniah (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Ghazi Alharbi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Meshari Khalid Almutlaq (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad Salah Al Yousif (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Hatem Masfer Alghamdi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar panel system for operation in airborne particulate environments is provided. The system incl...