US Patent Issued to Lockheed Martin on July 21 for "Rigid-framed flexible panel solar array" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,326, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Rigid-framed flexible panel solar array" was invented by John L. Gibb (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Phuc Huu Phan (San Jose, Calif.), Devon John Gibb (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Egan Chiu (Alameda, Calif.) and Montgomery Michael Perry (Boulder Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are various enhancements for solar panels and photovoltaic array assemblies. In one example, a system includes solar panel assemblies each comprising a frame defining a mounting area formed from modular segments having receiving features configured to accept spline elemen...