ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,643, issued on May 20, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Control device and method of controlling power generation system" was invented by Yueh-Heng Li (Tainan, Taiwan), Yu-Ting Wu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chao-Wei Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lo (Tainan, Taiwan), Hsun-Chen Hsieh (Chiayi, Taiwan), Po-Hung Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Yi-Heng Chen (Changhua County, Taiwan) and Ping-Han Huang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device for controlling a power generation system comprises a reception module, for receiving environmental data from the power generation system; an environment ...