ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,159, issued on May 13, was assigned to UNIRAC INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Modular sloped roof solar mounting system" was invented by Brian James Wildes (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting system for supporting a plurality of photovoltaic modules on a sloped support surface, such as a sloped roof, is disclosed herein. The mounting system may include one or more support surface attachment devices, each support surface attachment device configured to attach one or more photovoltaic modules to a support surface; and one or more module coupling devices, each module coupling device configured to couple a plurality of p...