ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,929, issued on March 11, was assigned to Fronius International GmbH (Pettenbach, Austria).

"Method for operating an inverter assembly and inverter assembly for carrying out the method" was invented by Harald Kreuzer (Pettenbach, Austria), Roland Pieler (Pettenbach, Austria), Christoph Pernegger (Pettenbach, Austria) and Richard Grasboeck (Pettenbach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating an inverter assembly and inverter assembly for carrying out the method, to reduce the risk of triggering a ground fault circuit interrupter, before feeding in the alternating voltage, the leakage capacitance to ground is d...