US Patent Issued to The Florida International University Board of Trustees on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for estimating component degradation in an inverter" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,511, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Systems and methods for estimating component degradation in an inverter" was invented by Arif I. Sarwat (Miami) and Sukanta Roy (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are providing for estimating component degradation in photovoltaic (PV) inverters. A functional digital twin (DT) can be used to accurately estimate and/or predict degradation of components of an inverter of a PV system, such as by estimating and/or predicting parameters of the components. A machine learning (ML) model can be used together with the...