ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,331, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sunrun Inc. (San Francisco).
"Mount assemblies with chemical flashings" was invented by Martin John Affentranger Jr. (Paso Robles, Calif.), William Stanley Arbuckle (Paso Robles, Calif.), Brian David Peterson (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Daniel Edward Ryan (Scotts Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chemical flashings for track assemblies and mount assemblies employed in solar power installations are disclosed. In some embodiments, a track assembly having a base, a pair of rails, a sealant receiving cavity and a round groove extending into the base from the bottom of the base, and a compres...