US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on Dec. 30 for "Method for operating an inverter, and inverter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,749, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for operating an inverter, and inverter" was invented by Simon Scheurich (Wertheim, Germany) and Alexander Unru (Baunatal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application describes operating an inverter having an AC connection, a DC connection and an inverter bridge therebetween. The operation includes operating the inverter in a first mode in which, at the AC connection, an AC grid is supplied with electrical power via the inverter, and the voltage of the AC grid is controlled via a regulation of the inverter. If an increase in a cur...