ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,178, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Rotation system and controller for photovoltaic tracker" was invented by Song Wan (Shanghai), Qinwei Liu (Shenzhen, China), Wuben Sun (Shanghai), Yanzhong Zhang (Shanghai) and Kai Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image/video capture apparatus is provided, to capture image data of a photovoltaic panel (101) and surroundings, and a controller (502) recognizes a category corresponding to the image data, and generates different instructions to control rotation of a photovoltaic tracker (102), to remove dust or snow accum...