ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,063, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Tigo Energy Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for remote or local shut-off of a photovoltaic system" was invented by Maxym Makhota (Cupertino, Calif.), Daniel Eizips (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dan Kikinis (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for shut-down of a photovoltaic system. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a computer system includes: communicating, via a central controller, with a plurality of local management units (LMUs), each of the LMUs coupled to control a respective solar module; receiving, via the central controller, a shut-dow...