ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,875, issued on July 22, was assigned to Tigo Energy Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for quick dissipation of stored energy from input capacitors of power inverters" was invented by Daniel Eizips (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mordechay Avrutsky (Alfei Menashe, Israel) and Sergey Kondrashov (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for connecting a photovoltaic module and an inverter having an input capacitor are presented. The photovoltaic system includes a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller coupled between the inverter and the photovoltaic module. The MPPT controller includes a direct curr...