US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on Feb. 17 for "Method for increasing the lifetime of converter switches, and system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,096, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for increasing the lifetime of converter switches, and system" was invented by Karl Nesemann (Kaufungen, Germany) and Zoltan Klausz (Guxhagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for increasing the lifetime of converter switches in a system having an energy source connected to a DC bus and a DC-to-DC converter having the converter switches. The method includes determining a system state in which electrical power of the energy source is available for which no transmission via the DC-to-DC converter and no...