US Patent Issued on July 29 for "Modular single-stage step-up PV converter with integrated power balancing feature" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,899, issued on July 29.

"Modular single-stage step-up PV converter with integrated power balancing feature" was invented by Kajanan Kanathipan (Toronto) and John Lam (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular single-stage photovoltaic step-up converter system with integrated power balancing, the converter system comprising: an input stage comprising at least one converter module, the at least one converter module comprising a single voltage-sensor based maximum power point (MPP) tracking controller and a power circuit; and an output stage comprising an active voltage quadrupler (VQ) circuit for achieving balanced outp...