ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,410, issued on July 22, was assigned to ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (Paris).

"Architecture of photovoltaic installations" was invented by Djamel Hadbi (Thomery, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system including an output inverter for connection to a third-party network, and at least one string, each string including at least one module of tandem photovoltaic cells, each module having a first and a second pair of connectors. The modules of a string are connected in series via their first pair of connectors. The strings are connected to the output inverter in parallel to each other via connectors of each string among the ...