ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,082, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Incheon National University Research and Business Foundation (Incheon, South Korea).

"Solar cell system" was invented by Jae Hyuk Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Byeong Seob Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Han Shin Youn (Incheon, South Korea), Ji Hoon Lim (Incheon, South Korea) and Dong In Lee (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment solar cell system includes a first photovoltaic (PV) module and a second PV module connected in series with each other, a differential power processing (DPP) converter con...