US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for optimizing solar power using array topology reconfiguration through a regularized deep neural network" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,190, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for optimizing solar power using array topology reconfiguration through a regularized deep neural network" was invented by Vivek Sivaraman Narayanaswamy (Tempe, Ariz.), Rajapandian Ayyanar (Chandler, Ariz.), Cihan Tepedelenlioglu (Chandler, Ariz.) and Andreas Spanias (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system reconfigures a photovoltaic array used in solar energy based on observed shading conditions to determine an optimal topology of the photovoltaic array to maximize power output. Spec...