ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,098, issued on June 3, was assigned to ENI S.P.A. (Rome).
"Photovoltaic converter" was invented by Cosimo Mazzella (San Donato, Italy), Giacomo Gorni (San Donato, Italy), Donato Vincenzi (Ferrara, Italy) and Paolo Bernardoni (Ferrara, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic converter for electric power generating panels includes photovoltaic modules. Each photovoltaic module has a substrate, extending along a main direction from a first end to a second end, and a photovoltaic devices, arranged on the substrate in succession along the main direction. The photovoltaic converter further includes at least a bridge module inser...