US Patent Issued to Sunmodo on June 24 for "Rail-less solar panel devices and system for roofs and the like and methods for mounting same" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,040, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sunmodo Corp. (Vancouver, Wash.).

"Rail-less solar panel devices and system for roofs and the like and methods for mounting same" was invented by Roland Jasmin (Portland, Ore.), Jun Liu (Camas, Wash.) and Steve Mumma (Oregon City, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discussed are solar panel systems as well as devices and methods for mounting the solar panel systems to roofs and building structures. Catch clamp, mid clamp, and optionally end clamp assemblies can be preinstalled to the solar panels at the job site before placing and securing the resulting solar panel assemblies to the building s...