ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,565, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Nextpower LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Calibration of pivotable PV modules using minimum-irradiance orientations" was invented by Gil Kroyzer (Jerusalem), Israel Kroizer (Jerusalem), Morag Am Shallem (Jerusalem), Michal Arieli (Rehovot, Israel) and Joseph Schwarzbach (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calibrating an angular position of a PV module in a solar energy system includes calculating a set of respective minimum-irradiance angles for a plurality of times during a travel period, pivoting the PV module through an actual travel path having an angular offset from a target trav...