US Patent Issued to FranklinWH Energy Storage on May 13 for "PV shutdown system with mid-circuit interrupter" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,992, issued on May 13, was assigned to FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"PV shutdown system with mid-circuit interrupter" was invented by Tao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Song Chen (Shenzhen, China), Lianyan Cai (Shenzhen, China), Xiaolong Luo (Shenzhen, China), Gang Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Yanxiang Wang (Shenzhen, China), Ke Bi (San Jose, Calif.), Cheung (Gary) Lam (San Jose, Calif.) and Douglas Amarhanow (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic (PV) shutdown system for a PV power generation system includes a mid-circuit interrupter (MCI) controller and at least one MCI with two terminals. The two...