US Patent Issued to Pentair Water Pool and Spa on July 7 for "System and method of solar harvesting for aquatic devices" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,336, issued on July 7, was assigned to Pentair Water Pool and Spa Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"System and method of solar harvesting for aquatic devices" was invented by Anas Alhajeh (Clayton, N.C.), Andrew Phy (Apex, N.C.), Jason M. Cowell (Apex, N.C.), James Miller (Sanford, N.C.) and Mitchell Bellamy (Sanford, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring and controlling power for connected aquatic devices includes a power module designed to generate power and transmit the energy to an energy storage module. A controller can be connected to one or more pool components of a connected aquatic system and one or more pe...