ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,548, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Decoupling of a perovskite solar cell in darkness" was invented by Maximilian Fleischer (Hohenkirchen, Germany), Roland Pohle (Herdweg, Germany), Elfriede Simon (Munich) and Oliver von Sicard (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a photovoltaic module in which the photovoltaic module has at least one perovskite solar cell. The method includes temporarily operating the photovoltaic module at the maximum power point by a control device connected to the photovoltaic module, wherein the drawing of electrical energy is interrupte...