US Patent Issued to BMIC on March 17 for "Solar panel roof system with raised access panels" (New Jersey, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,516, issued on March 17, was assigned to BMIC LLC (Dallas).

"Solar panel roof system with raised access panels" was invented by Tommy F. Rodrigues (Nutley, N.J.), Sudhir Railkar (Wayne, N.J.), Daniel E. Boss (Murphy, Texas), David Gennrich (Fitchburg, Wis.), Cory Boudreau (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Daniel R. Nett (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and Kent J. Kallsen (Jefferson, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar module for a roof covering system that generates electrical power from sunlight includes a frame having a bottom surface supported on a deck of a roof, a top surface, and a thickness between the bottom surface and the top surface. The s...