ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,504, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Enstall Europe B.V. (Deventer, Netherlands).

"System and method for mounting a solar panel onto a substantially flat mounting surface" was invented by Johannes Sander Goorman (Deventer, Netherlands), Maarten Alexander Smit (Deventer, Netherlands) and Jan-Floris de Graaf (Deventer, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system and a method for mounting at least one solar panel on a substantially flat mounting surface. The system comprises thereto a base element, a support structure configured for supporting at least part of at least one solar panel, which is connec...