US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on March 4 for "Systems and methods for fault classification in photovoltaic arrays using graph signal processing" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,266, issued on March 4, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for fault classification in photovoltaic arrays using graph signal processing" was invented by Jie Fan (Tempe, Ariz.), Sunil Rao (Tempe, Ariz.), Gowtham Muniraju (Tempe, Ariz.), Cihan Tepedelenlioglu (Tempe, Ariz.) and Andreas Spanias (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system and associated method for detecting and classifying faults in a photovoltaic array using graph-based signal processing."

The patent was filed on May 12, 2021, under Application No. 17/318,...