US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on April 22 for "Device for electrolysis from photovoltaically supplied power and a method of operating such a device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,808, issued on April 22, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Device for electrolysis from photovoltaically supplied power and a method of operating such a device" was invented by Martin Putz (Kassel, Germany) and Andreas Falk (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a device and associated method for electrolysis from photovoltaically generated DC power, including an electrolyzer and a DC/DC converter. The DC/DC converter feeds DC power to the electrolyzer, the DC power is generated by a photovoltaic (PV) sub-generator connected to the DC/DC converter. The PV sub-generator is...