ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,470, issued on July 8, was assigned to Vast Solar Pty Ltd (Sydney).
"Heliostat sub-assembly" was invented by Kurt Friedrich Drewes (Sydney) and Bruce Alexander Leslie (Sydney).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a heliostat sub-assembly and to a method of forming such a sub-assembly. The method of mounting a concave mirror to a supporting structure of a heliostat includes the steps of bonding a plurality of risers at predetermined spaced intervals to a rear face of the mirror, each riser having a bonding pad and a stem extending from the bonding pad, and applying a predetermined concave curvature to the mirror by co...