US Patent Issued to Shoals Technologies Group on Sept. 2 for "Lead assembly for connecting solar panel arrays to inverter" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,295, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Shoals Technologies Group LLC (Portland, Tenn.).

"Lead assembly for connecting solar panel arrays to inverter" was invented by Dean Solon (Gallatin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lead assembly includes first and second feeder cables and multiple drop lines. The feeder cables each has a first or second diameter and a first or second polarity. Each of the feeder cables contains two or more joints. Each joint electrically couples one or more drop lines to the first or second feeder cable at a nexus. Each drop line has a diameter that is less than the first diameter and less than the secon...