ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,253, issued on May 12, was assigned to PowerChina Huadong Engineerg Corporation Limited (Hangzhou, China).

"Multi-branch fixed offshore photovoltaic structure with automatic pitch adjustment" was invented by Bin Wang (Hangzhou, China), Shan Gao (Hangzhou, China), Dezhi Wang (Hangzhou, China), Gang Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Xiudi Ren (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-branch fixed offshore photovoltaic (PV) structure with automatic pitch adjustment includes a fixed base, a multi-branch integrated tower, and a PV device. The fixed base includes an upper section, a middle section and a lower section arranged in the ...