US Patent Issued to Vroom Solar on May 27 for "Control center for use with photovoltaic and other DC power sources" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,117, issued on May 27, was assigned to Vroom Solar Inc. (Springfield, Mo.).

"Control center for use with photovoltaic and other DC power sources" was invented by Luke Phelps (Springfield, Mo.), Ryan Konen (Shawnee, Kan.), Tim Stark (Blue Springs, Mo.) and James Bartley (Nixa, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power controller system and method for monitoring available power from an input power source, such as one or more photovoltaic ("PV") cells/panels, and controlling power output to one or more loads. A predetermined threshold input voltage value is assigned to the system. Using the predetermined value, the system determines wh...