ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,026, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sun Terra LTD. (Nataf, Israel).
"Mount for vertical photovoltaic modules" was invented by Moshe Finarov (Rehovot, Israel) and Yehoshua Sheinman (Ra'anana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system including a PV module or a number of modules held by a mount consisting of two vertical posts anchored to the ground and two hinges from both sides of the PV module, such hinges providing a pivot for free rotation of the PV module, which is located above the center of mass of the PV module. The rotation of the PV module around the pivot under wind loads significantly reduces the load...