ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,189, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Oshkosh Corp. (Oshkosh, Wis.).

"Solar panel installation system" was invented by Gregory Brulo (Oshkosh, Wis.), Guido Ritelli (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Ignacy Puszkiewicz (Oshkosh, Wis.) and Jihong Hao (Greencastle, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar panel installation machine includes a chassis, a body coupled to the chassis, a plurality of tractive elements coupled the chassis, a boom coupled to the body, and an implement coupled to an end of the boom. The implement includes a track, a robotic arm coupled to and translatable along the track, the robotic arm including a plurality of lin...