ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,591, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Photovoltaic system and direct current overcurrent protection apparatus" was invented by Xiufeng Zhang (Dongguan, China) and Xiaokang Tian (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system includes at least one first direct current module, an electromagnetic apparatus, a direct current switch-on/off apparatus, and a second direct current module. First connection ends of all first direct current modules in the at least one first direct current module are connected in parallel and then connected to a first connecti...