US Patent Issued to Unirac on May 6 for "Photovoltaic disconnect device for storage integration" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,237, issued on May 6, was assigned to Unirac Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Photovoltaic disconnect device for storage integration" was invented by Sandeep Narla (Newark, Calif.), Brian Kuhn (Austin, Texas), Kevin C. Fischer (Orinda, Calif.) and Udo Uebel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a photovoltaic (PV) disconnect device used in an electrical system. The PV disconnect device includes a relay component electrically coupled to a feed circuit of a backup PV power generation system and a connector port electrically coupled to an energy control system. The PV disconnect device includes a sensor...