US Patent Issued to Unirac on March 24 for "Photovoltaic module mounting assembly" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,127, issued on March 24, was assigned to Unirac Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Photovoltaic module mounting assembly" was invented by Brian Wares (Sacramento, Calif.), Ethan Ely (Martinez, Calif.), Sushrut Bapat (Alameda, Calif.) and Gary Rossi (Pleasant Hill, 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 secon...