US Patent Issued to Unirac on Sept. 8 for "Rail clamp for solar panel module" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,808, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Unirac Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Rail clamp for solar panel module" was invented by Srikanth Komuravelly (Hyderabad, India) and Sanjeev Mishra (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp couples to a rail on solar panel modules are supported and transitions between an unclamped state and a clamped state. The clamp includes a first body having a shelf on which a first arm of the rail rests, a flange, and a channel. The first arm is at least partially disposed in the channel in the clamped state. The clamp includes a second body having a shelf on which a second arm of the rail rests...