US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on Feb. 17 for "Method and circuit arrangement for acquiring a characteristic curve of a PV generator" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,136, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method and circuit arrangement for acquiring a characteristic curve of a PV generator" was invented by Martin Jilg (Hessisch Lichtenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for acquiring a characteristic curve of a PV generator is disclosed. In a power generation installation, an output side of each PV generator is connected via an assigned DC-DC converter, in parallel to a DC link as the input element of a DC-AC converter. The method includes reducing a cumulative output power of those DC-DC converters for which the associated PV genera...