ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,080, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Vacuworx Global LLC (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Solar panel vacuum lifter and trailer connectable to a host piece of equipment" was invented by Keith A. Sparks II (Tulsa, Okla.), Trevor Bowman (Tulsa, Okla.) and Justin Hendricks (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a solar panel trailer (10) of this disclosure include a fixed frame (20) having a pair of tilt hinges (55) at a forward end (21); a tilting frame (70) having forks (83) and connected to the pair of tilt hinges; a pair of lifting cylinders (140) having a piston end (141) and a rod end (143), the piston end connected to the...