ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,677, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sungrow Power Supply Co. Ltd. (Hefei, China).

"Photovoltaic power generation system and control method therefor, and power converter" was invented by Yanfei Yu (Hefei, China), Xinyu Wang (Hefei, China) and Xiaoxun Li (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic power generation system and a control method therefor, and a power converter are provided. The control method includes: obtaining MLPE state characterization information of the photovoltaic string; determining, based on the MLPE state characterization information, whether there is at least one MLPE device that fails to be ...