US Patent Issued to GAF Energy on March 18 for "Rapid shutdown device for photovoltaic modules" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,580, issued on March 18, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Rapid shutdown device for photovoltaic modules" was invented by Babak Farhangi (Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y.), Hasib Amin (San Jose, Calif.), Lewis Abra (San Francisco) and Richard Perkins (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rapid shutdown device for rapidly de-energizing a photovoltaic module system is disclosed. The rapid shutdown device includes power lines connected to a photovoltaic string of modules on a roof of a structure. A high voltage switch on a first power line is disconnected when the high voltage switch is open. The rapid shutdown d...