ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,862, issued on June 17, was assigned to TRINA SOLAR SPAIN, S.L.U. (Madrid).

"Damping system of a solar tracker" was invented by Peng Quan (Madrid), Juan Manuel Gomez Garcia (Madrid) and Abraham Ruiz Molinero (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A damping system of a solar tracker is provided, having at least one damper has a rod, an upper tie and a lower tie located at the end of the damper opposite the upper tie; where the upper tie is fixed by an upper support to a rotation shaft of the solar tracker, and where the lower tie is fixed by a lower support to a column of the solar tracker, so that with the rotation of the rotation sh...