US Patent Issued to AMPT on Sept. 1 for "Refined solar panel string converter topology" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,283, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AMPT LLC (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Refined solar panel string converter topology" was invented by Anatoli Ledenev (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Robert M. Porter (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive technology, in certain embodiments, may be generally described as a solar power generation system with a converter, which may potentially include two or more sub-converters, established intermediately of one or more strings of solar panels. Particular embodiments may involve sweet spot operation in order to achieve improvements in efficiency, and bucking of open circuit voltage...