US Patent Issued to Terabase Energy on Feb. 24 for "High stow solar tracker with hail protection" (California, Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,678, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Terabase Energy Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"High stow solar tracker with hail protection" was invented by Adam Hansel (Davis, Calif.), Brian Coleman (Portland, Ore.), Dylan Harper (Vancouver, Wash.), Johann Fritz Karkheck (Petaluma, Calif.), Mark Peter Shroeder (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Matthew Paul Campbell (Berkeley, Calif.) and Soren Jensen (Corte Madera, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method embodiments are described for solar panel protection against severe environmental impacts. A tracker controller may be configured to rotate a solar tracker comprising a group of solar pa...