ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,130, issued on Feb. 17.
"Single-axis photovoltaic tracking system" was invented by Benjamin Quintana (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention involves a single-axis solar tracker and its drive system having a balanced crank-throw design for mounting photovoltaic panels, and in turn eliminating the need for an underlying traditional mounting bracket, mounting pivot, and/or torque tube. Each photovoltaic panel row rotates about one common rotation axis, while photovoltaic panels are segmented into discrete subsets mounted to simple fixed support bars extended away from the row's central rotation axis in a horiz...