ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,891, issued on May 20, was assigned to Texas State University (San Marcos, Texas).
"Daylighting systems and or solar tracking systems" was invented by Ricardo Mateo Ramirez III (San Marcos, Texas) and Bahram Asiabanpour (San Marcos, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for moving an end effector based on receipt of sunlight, the end effector divided into a first and second upper quadrant located above a Y-axis that corresponds to a solar azimuth and a first and second lower quadrant located below the Y-axis, the first upper and first lower quadrant located on a first side of an X-axis that corresponds to a solar angle and th...