ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,505, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Solaredge Technologies Ltd. (Herzeliya, Israel).
"Serially connected inverters" was invented by Ilan Yoscovich (Ramat Gan, Isle of Man), Meir Gazit (Ashkelon, Israel), Tzachi Glovinsky (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Yoav Galin (Raanana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic power generation system, having a photovoltaic panel, which has a direct current (DC) output and a micro-inverter with input terminals and output terminals. The input terminals are adapted for connection to the DC output. The micro-inverter is configured for converting an input DC power received at the input terminal...