US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric USA on May 13 for "Split-bus electrical panel in parallel configuration to maximize PV/battery inverter back-feed power" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,050, issued on May 13, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"Split-bus electrical panel in parallel configuration to maximize PV/battery inverter back-feed power" was invented by Timothy Phillips (Murfreesboro, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus provides a single split-bus electrical panel with back-feed circuit breakers arranged and sized so that, for example, a single 225 A rated split-bus electrical panel with a 200 A main breaker may be used to connect a far higher photovoltaic power source than conventional configurations. The circuit breakers are connected to a Microgrid Interconnection Device fo...