US Patent Issued to NEXTPOWER on March 24 for "High efficiency gear box and holding system for solar trackers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,131, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEXTPOWER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"High efficiency gear box and holding system for solar trackers" was invented by David Kresse (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Yang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alexander W. Au (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar tracker includes a plurality of piers, one end of the piers configured for installation in the earth, a plurality of bearings, each bearing supported by a pier, a torque tube received in the plurality of bearings and configured to support a plurality of solar modules, a plurality of drive motors, each drive motor associated with a pier, ...