US Patent Issued to ARRAY TECH on Aug. 25 for "Learning axis-tilt and cross-axis slopes for slope-aware backtracking" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,405, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ARRAY TECH INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Learning axis-tilt and cross-axis slopes for slope-aware backtracking" was invented by John Moseley (Albuquerque, N.M.), Kyumin Lee (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Kendra Lynn Conrad (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide improvements over existing solar tracking systems by implementing a backtracking process that optimizes irradiance capture while also reducing row-to-row shading. In some embodiments, a "slope-aware" backtracking model accounts for east-west and north-south slopes that are present, as in...