ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,036, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"Photovoltaic power supply system and control method thereof, and air conditioning unit" was invented by Ningning Chen (Guangdong, China), Xianqiao Yu (Guangdong, China), Jing Wang (Guangdong, China), Meng Huang (Guangdong, China) and Peiyu Dang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a photovoltaic power supply system and a control method thereof, and an air conditioning unit. The system includes: a photovoltaic cell panel; a direct-current bus; a DC/DC converter, one end of which is connected to the photovoltai...