ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,826, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"IoT enabled laser-based pointed cleaning of solar panel" was invented by Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Jagabondhu Hazra (Bangalore, India) and Manikandan Padmanaban (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser-based system and method for cleaning solar panels that have accumulate dirt or grime. The laser-based system employs methods for identifying optimum timing when the laser-based cleaning is to be performed. Otherwise, a selective cleaning will be performed on the solar panel. The method receives a combination of weather...