US Patent Issued to Watershed Geosynthetics on May 20 for "Integrated photovoltaic module mounting system for use with tufted geosynthetics" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,783, issued on May 20, was assigned to Watershed Geosynthetics LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Integrated photovoltaic module mounting system for use with tufted geosynthetics" was invented by Michael R Ayers (Johns Creek, Ga.), S Kyle Ehman (Milton, Ga.), Neta Reef (Beit Elazari, Israel) and Sharone Zehavi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting system 110 for a solar panel 11 includes a base plate 114 having an elongated mounting slot 116, a spacer beam 124 with a slot 128, a first T-shaped fastener 131 having a mounting plate 132 with a width slightly smaller than the size of the slot and a length larger than the size...