ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,253, issued on July 8, was assigned to HUAWEI DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Photovoltaic system, protection method, and inverter system" was invented by Xinyu Yu (Shanghai), Kai Xin (Shanghai), Yanzhong Zhang (Shanghai) and Yongbing Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system includes a controller and two groups of inverters. The two groups of inverters include a positive inverter group and a negative inverter group. The positive inverter group includes at least two inverters: a first inverter and a third inverter. The negative inverter group includes at least two inverters: a second inverter...