MUMBAI, India, Nov. 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641128106 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai on October 27, 2026, for Deployable Perforated Canopy For Protecting Solar Panel Arrays Against Hail And Downburst Loads.
Inventors include G. Vinayagamurthy; Udit Srikant Rao; and Chinmay Shashikant Patil.
The application for the patent was published on November 06, 2026, under issue no. 45/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a protective system (100) for safeguarding ground-mounted and roof-mounted solar panel arrays (120) against hailstorms, downbursts, cyclonic winds, and snow. The protective system (100) includes a weather data unit (102), a manual input unit (104), ...