ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,515, issued on March 25, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).
"Inverter of compact design" was invented by Klaus Rigbers (Goettingen, Germany), Thomas Wappler (Guxhagen, Germany), Gerrit Braun (Kassel, Germany), Andreas Knobloch (Kassel, Germany) and Matthias Rehbein (Kassel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter with a rated power of at least 3 kVA includes a first assembly which includes a first printed circuit board and a DC/AC converter stage, and a second assembly which includes a second printed circuit board and an EMC filter for the DC/AC converter stage. The first printed circuit board i...