US Patent Issued to OPTiVOLTS on Feb. 4 for "Methods and apparatus for optimizing efficiencies of a solar power system" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,509, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to OPTiVOLTS LLC (Waco, Texas).

"Methods and apparatus for optimizing efficiencies of a solar power system" was invented by Vincent Ambrose (Waco, Texas) and George Kuo (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of photovoltaic (PV) modules are configured into a PV string to generate a PV string voltage in a solar power system. The number of PV modules per PV string is based on operating conditions at the solar power system site and cause the PV string voltage to exceed a maximum voltage specification when operating at the lowest expected ambient temperature at the site, but o...