ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,977, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).
"Metal roofing shingles" was invented by Thierry Nguyen (San Francisco), Michael David Kuiper (Newark, Calif.), Gary Rossi (San Francisco) and Gabriela Bunea (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roofing system including a plurality of photovoltaic modules installed on a roof deck, where each of the photovoltaic modules includes at least one solar cell, and a plurality of metal roofing shingles installed on the roof deck adjacent the plurality of photovoltaic modules, where the plurality of metal roofing shingles includes at least a first metal ro...