ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,300, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Solar power generation system and control method" was invented by Yukinori Murakami (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar power generation system includes a solar power generation device, a load device, and a control device. The control device includes a switching control unit for executing switching control for starting power supply to the load device when electric energy generated by the solar power generation device is equal to or larger than a starting threshold value and stopping the power supply to the load device when the electric ene...