US Patent Issued to COMTECH (AUST) on July 1 for "Solar power monitoring and optimization apparatus, systems and methods" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,076, issued on July 1, was assigned to COMTECH (AUST) PTY LTD (Queensland, Australia).

"Solar power monitoring and optimization apparatus, systems and methods" was invented by Ian Schirmer (Loganholme, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to monitor and optimise power output by one or more solar panels to which the apparatus is coupled comprises a processor configured to generate a periodic wave and apply the periodic wave to an output of the one or more solar panels. Analogue-to-digital voltage and current converters receive voltage and current signals respectively from the one or more solar panels and provide digita...