US Patent Issued to The AES on June 17 for "Solar panel handling system" (Virginia, New York, California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,868, issued on June 17, was assigned to The AES Corp. (Arlington, Va.).

"Solar panel handling system" was invented by John Christopher Shelton (Falls Church, Va.), Luis Herrera (Bethesda, Md.), Deise Yumi Asami (Arlington, Va.), Steve Gangi (Webster, N.Y.), Chris Angevine (Webster, N.Y.), Brian Roscoe (Webster, N.Y.), David Meiller (Webster, N.Y.), Adam Bowers (San Francisco) and Joseph Briney (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for installing a solar panel may include a first end-of-arm assembly tool coupled to a first robotic arm and part of a first assembly robot and a second end-of-arm assembly tool coupled to ...