ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,087, issued on June 3, was assigned to Watershed Geosynthetics LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Anchoring structure for ground mounting of solar photovoltaic system" was invented by Benjamin Keren (Yuvalim, Israel), Neta Reef (Beit Elazary, Israel), S. Kyle Ehman (Milton, Ga.) and Michael R. Ayers (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ground mounting system for supporting solar photovoltaic panels on a planar or inclined having an array of soil fasteners in spaced-relation driven through a geomembrane overlying a greenfield ground site and connected with a respective one of a plurality adapting regulating apparatus to racks to whi...