ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,051, issued on May 13, was assigned to Solaredge Technologies Ltd. (Herzeliya, Israel).
"Power device terminal backup switch unit" was invented by Natan Schecter (Jerusalem), Roni Salman (Jerusalem), Aryeh Zafranski (Jerusalem) and Yuval Paz (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a power outage occurs, an uninterruptable power supplies may lose all grid connections including a neutral connection which may be connected to ground. To avoid the loss of a ground connection to the power circuits of the UPS, a switch unit may be used to selectively connect a neutral conductor of the circuit to a ground terminal. The switch unit...