ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,131, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NEXTRACKER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for tracker-level protection" was invented by Chen Li (Fremont, 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 tracking system includes a solar array, a support structure configured to support the solar array, a driveshaft coupled to the support structure, a base configured to rotatably support the driveshaft, and an articulation system coupled to the driveshaft and configured to articulate the driveshaft relative to the base. The articulation system includes a gearbox c...