ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,177, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Solaredge Technologies Ltd. (Herzeliya, Israel).

"Distributed power system using direct current power sources" was invented by Meir Adest (Modiin, Israel), Lior Handelsman (Givatayim, Israel), Yoav Galin (Raanana, Israel), Amir Fishelov (Tel Aviv, Israel), Guy Sella (Bitan Aharon, Israel) and Yaron Binder (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed power system including multiple (DC) batteries each DC battery with positive and negative poles. Multiple power converters are coupled respectively to the DC batteries. Each power converter includes a first terminal, a second termi...