ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,577, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sungrow Power Supply Co. Ltd. (Hefei, China).

"Energy storage system and control method thereof" was invented by Jie Zhang (Hefei, China), Linchong Xu (Hefei, China), Zijiao Pan (Hefei, China) and Peng Zhang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system and a control method thereof in the field of energy storage are provided. The system includes: an energy storage battery, a first bidirectional DC/DC circuit, a DC bus, a DC/AC circuit, a first controllable switch, and a second controllable switch. The energy storage battery is connected to a device side of the first bidire...