US Patent Issued to FCX Solar on Sept. 29 for "Aerodynamic damping stow for solar tracker systems" (Hawaii, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,007, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FCX Solar LLC (Mont Vernon, N.H.).

"Aerodynamic damping stow for solar tracker systems" was invented by Christopher Thomas Needham (Mountain View, Hawaii) and Frank Carl Oudheusden (Mont Vernon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stowing flexible tracker systems with the panel surfaces at a negative tilt angle during high wind is enhanced through optimizing around total system damping in order to address aerodynamic instabilities. Current flexible tracker designs function by avoiding the regions in which negative aerodynamic damping primarily occurs. Doing so requires them to stow at maximum...