ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,988, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ohmium International Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"System and methods for controlling photovoltaic-powered hydrogen production plants" was invented by Anil Kumar Adapa (Tadepalligudem, India), Gregory Kern (Arlington, Calif.), Rasool Aghatehrani (Redwood City, Calif.), Arne Ballantine (Incline Village, Nev.) and Vidya Rangaswamy (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a photovoltaic (PV)-powered hydrogen production plant includes a plurality of PV modules to receive sunlight and output DC power, wherein the plurality of PV modules are combined in series to create a PV strin...