US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on July 29 for "Method for balancing voltages in a DC grid and balancing unit for a DC grid" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,883, issued on July 29, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for balancing voltages in a DC grid and balancing unit for a DC grid" was invented by Alexander Unru (Baunatal, Germany), Marcel Kratochvil (Kassel, Germany) and Burkard Muller (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application describes a method for balancing voltages on a first and a second DC conductor in a DC grid using a balancing circuit with a first and second semiconductor switch connected in series between the first and second DC conductors, and a connection to a ground potential that is arranged between the first and s...