US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on March 4 for "Monitoring circuit for photovoltaic module" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,984, issued on March 4, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Monitoring circuit for photovoltaic module" was invented by Timothy Patrick Pauletti (Dallas) and Suheng Chen (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring circuit for a photovoltaic module includes a measurement conditioning circuit, a microcontroller circuit, and a transmitter circuit. The measurement conditioning circuit includes a voltage sense terminal, a voltage reference terminal, and a digital measurement data output. The microcontroller circuit includes a digital measurement data input coupled with the digital measurement data output, a mod...