Overview
- The federal jury in the Middle District of North Carolina on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, awarded Shoals about $96.38 million and the court entered a preliminary injunction against Voltage’s LYNX products found to infringe Shoals’ patents.
- The district-court verdict follows earlier U.S. International Trade Commission findings that Voltage’s imported LYNX trunk bus assemblies infringed Shoals patents and violated Section 337 import rules.
- The court found Voltage’s redesigned product, LYNX PLUS, did not infringe, and Voltage says it will keep LYNX PLUS in production and shipping while it seeks a new trial and other post-trial and appellate remedies.
- Shoals’ CEO praised the outcome and said the ruling validates its Big Lead Assembly (BLA) patents and supports plans to invest in U.S. manufacturing as the company enforces its intellectual property.
- Trunk bus or BLA components are central to utility-scale solar electrical balance-of-system work, so the rulings may change supplier choices, slow some procurement cycles, and spark further appeals and enforcement battles that the industry should watch.