US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on Oct. 7 for "Method for operating a DC voltage grid and power converter for connecting a DC voltage grid to an AC voltage grid" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,363, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for operating a DC voltage grid and power converter for connecting a DC voltage grid to an AC voltage grid" was invented by Alexander Unru (Baunatal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical system includes a power converter and a DC/DC converter configured to transfer power between an AC side and a DC side thereof. The AC side is connected to an AC supply grid and the DC side is connected to a DC grid. The power converter has a bridge circuit connected to the AC side of the power converter via AC relays and connected to the DC sid...