ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,542, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lunar Energy Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Power interface to an inverter subsystem" was invented by Kevin Richard Fine (Redwood City, Calif.), Mark Holveck (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Conrad Xavier Murphy (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter subsystem that includes a direct current (DC) bus, a DC terminal, and a power storage interface that is configured to be connected to power storage. The DC terminal is configured to be: (1) connected to the DC bus via an internally-facing side of the DC terminal and (2) connected to a load via an externally-facing side of the DC term...