US Patent Issued to FTC Solar on Aug. 4 for "Solar tracker systems and methods including a rail assembly" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,824, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FTC Solar Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Solar tracker systems and methods including a rail assembly" was invented by Tamilarasan Mouniandy (Chennai, India), Nagendra Srinivas Cherukupalli (Saratoga, Calif.), Baskaran Subbarayan (Chennai, India), Rajesh Shanmugasundaram (Chennai, India) and Sait Abdul Kareem (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rail assemblies for connecting a photovoltaic panel to a tube include a rail shaped to be mounted on the tube such that, when mounted, the rail extends transversely outward of the tube between first and second ends. The rail assemblies further include a ...