US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on Oct. 7 for "Power generation system and inverter for feeding power into a three-phase grid" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. RE50,626, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Power generation system and inverter for feeding power into a three-phase grid" was invented by Oliver Prior (Bad Arolsen, Germany), Thomas Schroeder (Kassel, Germany) and Henrik Wolf (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generation system for feeding electrical power from a generation unit into a three-phase grid via three AC terminals is disclosed. The system includes a relay arrangement for disconnecting the system from the grid having at least three relays. Each of the three relays includes a control coil and two switching contact...