ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,862, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEXTRACKER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Solar module washer clip" was invented by Raghavendra Praveen Maddulapalli (Telangana, India), Abhimanyu Anil Sable (Telangana, India) and Ricardo Delgado-Nanez (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washer clip device includes a first clip arm, a second clip arm, at least one grounding element at the first clip arm and/or the second clip arm, and a fastening aperture extending through the first clip arm. The first and second clip arms are joined together at a first end of the washer clip device to define a first internal clip area adjacent the first...