ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,917, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sungrow Renewables Development Co. Ltd. (Hefei, China).

"Photovoltaic system and method for determining combiner box set for the same" was invented by Zongjun Yang (Hefei, China), Sanqi Tao (Hefei, China) and Fan Li (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system and a method for determining a combiner box set for the photovoltaic system are provided. The photovoltaic system includes a photovoltaic array divided into at least two combination groups, a photovoltaic converter, and a combiner box in at least one nonfinal stage and a combiner box in a final stage for each of the ...