ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,413, issued on April 1, was assigned to Optivolt Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for regulating power output of multiple solar substrings" was invented by Linda Stacey Irish (San Francisco) and Weston Braun (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a system for regulating power output of multiple solar substrings includes: a set of solar substrings and a power regulator. The power regulator includes: a power supply; an adder; a modulation signal generator; a de-modulator; and an integrator. The power supply is configured to receive an input voltage from the set of solar substrings. The adder is conf...