ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,494, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Photovoltaic system and circuit protection method for photovoltaic system" was invented by Xin Qi (Shanghai), Zhiwu Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Xiufeng Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system includes an active protection switch, a direct current-direct current conversion circuit, and a controller. The active protection switch is configured to connect to a photovoltaic module, and the direct current-direct current conversion circuit. The direct current-direct current conversion circuit is configure...