ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,588, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for setting a power class of an inverter, and inverter" was invented by Raimund Thiel (Bad Zwesten, Germany) and Michael Viotto (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for setting a power class of an inverter, wherein the inverter has a device type plate containing information about the inverter which is device-specific and independent of the selected power class, and wherein the inverter has a class plate which is selected from a plurality of power class-specific class plates each assigned to one p...