US Patent Issued to Florida Power & Light on Oct. 20 for "Detection of sensor anomalies in photovoltaic power systems" (Minnesota, North Carolina, Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,292, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Florida Power & Light Co. (Juno Beach, Fla.).

"Detection of sensor anomalies in photovoltaic power systems" was invented by James U Morley (Port St. Lucie, Fla.), Mario D. Ibanez (Concord, N.C.), Sriharsha Veeramachaneni (Minneapolis) and Joel F. Walker (Lunenburg, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Employing artificial intelligence to detect anomalies associated with plane of array irradiance (POAI) sensors at photovoltaic (PV) power systems is discussed. One example is a method that includes determining, via analyzing plane of array irradiance (POAI) sensor data from a POAI sensor of a PV s...