ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,827, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Power supply system and IV curve scanning method for power supply system" was invented by Zhiwu Xu (Shenzhen, China), Jialong Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Haibin Guo (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply system and an IV curve scanning method for a power supply system. The power supply system includes at least a first inverter and a second inverter. The first inverter starts, at an IV curve scanning start time of the first inverter, to perform IV curve scanning on a string connected to the first inverter, and ...