ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,639, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sarcos Corp. (Salt Lake City).
"Dispensing hopper and presentation system for overhead installation of solar panels for a solar tracking system" was invented by Fraser M. Smith (Salt Lake City) and Matthew Torok (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic solar panel presentation system, as part of a solar panel installation system, for facilitating installation of solar panels into a panel retention system of a panel support assembly, the solar panel presentation system comprising a solar panel dispensing hopper comprising a hopper enclosure operable to receive and support one or more sol...