ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,128, issued on March 24, was assigned to SUNSTACK LLC (Plainfield, N.J.) and ROOF AND SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Poway, Calif.).

"Trestle" was invented by Shuichi Kobayashi (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trestle includes a fixing unit for fixing a solar panel, a receiving member receiving the fixing unit from below, a base unit, and a first fastener. The base unit is formed with a height direction adjusting groove for fixing the receiving member to be adjustable in a height direction from a roof surface. The first fastener fixes the receiving member to the base unit by being attached to the height direction adjusting ...