US Patent Issued to Rheem Australia on July 1 for "System, apparatus and method for efficient use of solar photovoltaic energy" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,424, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rheem Australia PTY Ltd. (Rydalmere, Australia).

"System, apparatus and method for efficient use of solar photovoltaic energy" was invented by Grant Stepa (Rydalmere, Australia) and Peter Kerr (Rydalmere, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar photovoltaic (PV) water heating system includes a tank including at least a first heating unit having at least first and second heating elements, at least one of which is switchable; a PV solar collector; an inverter adapted to convert the output from the PV collector to an alternating power supply; a modulator to modulate the alternating power su...