ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,576, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Unirac Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Ballast systems for securing photovoltaic modules" was invented by Jonathan Neal (Albuquerque, N.M.), Nikhil Babu (Hyderabad, India), Ernest Gallegos (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Deepthi Gangumalla (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ballast system includes a first ballast tray and a second ballast tray. The first ballast tray has a first side profile including a south leg connected to a north leg. The second ballast tray has a second side profile that is different than the first side profile. A length of the north leg of the second side profile is gr...