US Patent Issued to GAF Energy on Sept. 9 for "Integrated photovoltaic roofing shingles, methods, systems, and kits thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,176, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Integrated photovoltaic roofing shingles, methods, systems, and kits thereof" was invented by Nathan Peterson (Oakland, Calif.), Richard Perkins (San Jose, Calif.), Alex Sharenko (Berkeley, Calif.) and Gabriela Bunea (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an integrated photovoltaic (PV) roofing shingle comprising a photovoltaic (PV) module and a roofing shingle. In some embodiments, the roofing shingle is bonded to the PV module. In some embodiments, a bond strength between the roofing shingle an...