ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,138, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Inverter of grid-connected photovoltaic power generation system, startup apparatus, method, and system" was invented by Zhen Cao (Shanghai), Yanzhong Zhang (Shanghai) and Yongbing Gao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an inverter of a grid-connected photovoltaic power generation system. The inverter includes a grid-connected inverter unit, an alternating current auxiliary power supply, and a startup apparatus. The alternating current auxiliary power supply is configured to convert an alternating cur...