US Patent Issued to Unirac on April 7 for "Rail mounted junction box" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,879, issued on April 7, was assigned to Unirac Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Rail mounted junction box" was invented by Brian Wares (Sacramento, Calif.), Ethan Ely (San Jose, Calif.), Sushrut Bapat (Alameda, Calif.) and Gary Rossi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a bracket assembly for securing a photovoltaic (PV) module. The bracket assembly may include a bracket having a top portion and a bottom surface and a clip coupled to the bracket. The clip may include a hooked portion, wherein the clip is configured to be displaced by a PV module from a first position to a second position. The cli...