US Patent Issued to Hanwha Solutions on Oct. 14 for "Switched capacitor based DC optimizer for PV module level energy harvesting" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,952, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hanwha Solutions Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Switched capacitor based DC optimizer for PV module level energy harvesting" was invented by Mudhafar Hassan-Ali (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic (PV) system may include a plurality of PV modules connected in series, each PV module of the plurality of PV modules being configured to harvest solar energy, and output the harvested solar energy as direct current (DC); at least one inverter connected to the plurality of PV modules, the at least one inverter configured to, receive the DC output by the plurality of PV modul...