US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on Nov. 18 for "Method for determining an operating parameter of a PV installation, PV installation having an inverter and inverter for such a PV installation" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,589, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for determining an operating parameter of a PV installation, PV installation having an inverter and inverter for such a PV installation" was invented by Edwin Kiel (Gleichen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and associated system for determining an operating parameter of a PV installation having a plurality of PV modules is disclosed. The PV modules each include a shutdown apparatus connected to a transmission apparatus of the PV installation and has a feed-in operation and a shutdown operation. At least one PV module is equip...