US Patent Issued to NEXTPOWER on May 12 for "Systems and methods of DC power conversion and transmission for solar fields" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,158, issued on May 12, was assigned to NEXTPOWER LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of DC power conversion and transmission for solar fields" was invented by Alexander W. Au (Oakland, Calif.) and Yang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods integrate advanced solar tracker, battery, inverter, and software technologies to improve performance, plant output, and costs. The systems may incorporate an advanced vanadium flow battery (VFB) that is DC-voltage (DV)-coupled to photovoltaic (PV) arrays for high, round-trip efficiency. The systems incorporate a DC architecture that optimizes performa...