ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,825, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nextpower LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Staged stowage of solar trackers and method thereof" was invented by Stuart Upfill-Brown (San Francisco), Tushar Guha (Milpitas, Calif.) and Jacob Mark Morin (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of managing dynamic response to wind in a solar tracker system are provided. The method includes determining a wind speed, comparing the wind speed to a predetermined threshold value to determine if the wind speed equals or exceeds the predetermined threshold, positioning a windward most solar tracker to a predetermined angle based on the comparing,...