US Patent Issued to Eagle View Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Method and system for determining solar access of a structure" (Costa Rican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,320, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Eagle View Technologies Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Method and system for determining solar access of a structure" was invented by Ajai Sehgal (Woodinville, Wash.), David Nilosek (Bothell, Wash.), Daniel Rojas (La Union, Costa Rica), George Chaves (Tambor, Costa Rica) and Pete Cleveland (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for automatically determining solar access values, including a method including calculating a ray between a sun position and a structure vertex at a plurality of time periods; comparing a path of the ray to location of points in object...