ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,566, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Photovoltaic system" was invented by Yanzhong Zhang (Shanghai) and Zhenhuan Shu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system includes a plurality of photovoltaic strings, at least one junction device, and at least one inverter. Each photovoltaic string includes a first direct current output terminal, and is configured to generate a first direct current. Each junction device is coupled to the plurality of photovoltaic strings. Each junction device is configured to output second direct currents through second direc...