ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,571, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sungrow Power Supply Co. Ltd. (Hefei, China).

"Photovoltaic system and communication method therefor" was invented by Yu Yang (Hefei, China), Yanfei Yu (Hefei, China), Jun Xu (Hefei, China), Zongjun Yang (Hefei, China) and Xinyu Wang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system and a communication method therefor. The communication method includes: each slave sends a report signal to a host, and monitors a response signal of the host; and if the at least one slave receives the response signal, the corresponding slave executes a corresponding action on the basis of the resp...