ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,871, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SUZHOU UKT NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Photovoltaic component control device" was invented by Xiaojun Tai (Suzhou, China), Yichi Zhang (Suzhou, China), Huiming Cai (Suzhou, China), Yang Lin (Suzhou, China), Liang Zhou (Suzhou, China) and Youhua Huang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a photovoltaic component control device including at least one bypass module configured to connect in parallel to at least one photovoltaic component; a driving circuit configured to drive the at least one bypass module to operate un...