US Patent Issued to Huaneng Qinghai Power Generation on Jan. 27 for "Photovoltaic array tracking bracket and control method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,477, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huaneng Qinghai Power Generation Co. Ltd. (Xining, China).

"Photovoltaic array tracking bracket and control method thereof" was invented by Gengfeng Zhu (Qinghai, China), Jia Zhang (Qinghai, China), Anzhou Deng (Qinghai, China) and Shiming Xu (Qinghai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic array tracking bracket and a control method thereof are provided. The solar illumination point on the photovoltaic array is determined based on the solar illumination area; the power generation influence information and solar illumination information of the solar illumination points are collecte...