ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,317, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Energy storage apparatus, energy storage apparatus control method, and photovoltaic system" was invented by Shijiang Yu (Shanghai), Zhipeng Wu (Shenzhen, China), He Zhou (Shanghai), Lei Shi (Shanghai) and Yang Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides an energy storage apparatus, an energy storage apparatus control method, and a photovoltaic system. The energy storage apparatus includes: a plurality of battery clusters, a plurality of conversion units, a start unit, and a controller. The controller includes a pl...