US Patent Issued to Siemens on Nov. 11 for "Method, computer-implemented tool and power plant control device for detecting power production degradation of solar power plants and solar power plant system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,171, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method, computer-implemented tool and power plant control device for detecting power production degradation of solar power plants and solar power plant system" was invented by Joachim Bamberger (Stockdorf, Germany), Amer Mesanovic (Munich) and Andrei Szabo (Ottobrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to detect power production degradation of a solar power plant (SPP) with at least one photovoltaic module (PVM), by which the detection of power production degradation, affected for instance by long term aging or soiling of the photovoltaic module of the solar p...