US Patent Issued to ARRAY TECH on June 23 for "Systems and devices for securing a photovoltaic module to a mounting rail" (Arizona, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,543, issued on June 23, was assigned to ARRAY TECH INC. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Systems and devices for securing a photovoltaic module to a mounting rail" was invented by Benjamin de Fresart (Chandler, Ariz.), Nathan Schuknecht (Golden, Colo.) and Shuo Chen (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clip for attaching a frame rail to a mounting rail in a photovoltaic (PV) module system may include a first arm and a second arm, both with proximal and distal ends, and a connecting body that connects the proximal ends of the first arm and second arm. The first arm includes a first retention recess that may be configured to interfac...