ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,706, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Solaredge Technologies Ltd. (Herzeliya, Israel).

"Pairing of components in a direct current distributed power generation system" was invented by Guy Sella (Bitan Aharon, Israel), Meir Adest (Modiin, Israel), Lior Handelsman (Givatayim, Israel), Yoav Galin (Raanana, Israel), Amir Fishelov (Tel Aviv, Israel), Meir Gazit (Ashkelon, Israel), Ilan Yoscovich (Givatayim, Israel) and Yaron Binder (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of signaling between a photovoltaic module and an inverter module. The inverter module is connected to the photovoltaic module. In an initial mode of ope...