US Patent Issued to Sungrow Power Supply on May 13 for "Photovoltaic assembly shutoff device, inverter, and photovoltaic quick shutoff system and starting method therefor" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,007, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sungrow Power Supply Co. Ltd. (Hefei, China).

"Photovoltaic assembly shutoff device, inverter, and photovoltaic quick shutoff system and starting method therefor" was invented by Qiaodi Chen (Hefei, China), Yu Yang (Hefei, China) and Jun Xu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shutdown device for a photovoltaic module, an inverter, a rapid shutdown system, and a method for starting the rapid shutdown system are provided. The method is applied to the rapid shutdown system after each shutdown device in the rapid shutdown system initially starts. The shutdown device is switched into a mod...