ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,302, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sun World LLC (Russia).

"Power supply apparatus based on photovoltaic panels" was invented by Dmitriy Nikolaevich Kushnerev (Bahchisarayskiy r-on, Russia) and Irina Aleksandrovna Kushnereva (Bahchisarayskiy r-on, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to converter technology and can be used to efficiently extract the power from solar panels, convert and transmit the obtained energy to the industrial grid, and service the load to consumers. A power supply apparatus based on photovoltaic panels, which comprises a solar panel unit, a DC/DC converter, an inverter, a DC/DC conve...