ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,516, issued on March 24, was assigned to OJJO Inc. (San Rafael, Calif.).
"Bearing adapters for single-axis trackers" was invented by Katie Pesce (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Greg McPheeters (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bearing adapters for use with truss foundations supporting mechanically balanced single-axis trackers. The bearing adapter joins the free ends of a pair of adjacent truss legs to form a rigid A-frame shaped foundation structure. A bearing is formed in an upper portion of the bearing adapter to allow a torque tube to be suspended from a pin in the bearing and to swing through an arc bounded by the bea...