US Patent Issued to SHELL USA on Sept. 15 for "Methods and systems to provide electric power from solar energy equipment" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,745, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).

"Methods and systems to provide electric power from solar energy equipment" was invented by Jeffrey Brendan Martin (Amsterdam) and Martijn Lunshof (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for directly providing electrical power from a photovoltaic (PV) installation to electrical consumer. The method comprises (a) providing electrical power from the PV installation directly to the electrical consumer, where the PV installation comprises a first portion and a second portion; (b) determining whether current (I) output of the PV installation is belo...