ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,989, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Control device of solar power generation system" was invented by Yuma Miyamoto (Miyoshi, Japan), Yukinori Murakami (Toyota, Japan), Takashi Fukai (Obu, Japan) and Akinori Kawamura (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device scans the output voltage of the first converter within a predetermined range to search for a maximum-efficiency voltage. At that time, the control device controls the output voltage of the first converter to the first voltage and acquires the output power of the first converter at that time as the first power, contr...