US Patent Issued to SMA Solar Technology on July 21 for "Method for operating an electrolyzer, connection circuit, rectifier circuit, and electrolysis system for carrying out the method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,933, issued on July 21, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for operating an electrolyzer, connection circuit, rectifier circuit, and electrolysis system for carrying out the method" was invented by Alexander Unru (Baunatal, Germany), Arno Gerth (Kassel, Germany), Ralf Juchem (Felsberg, Germany) and Tobias Becker (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application describes a method for operating an electrolyzer to generate hydrogen from water using an electrolysis reaction, supplied with power from an AC grid via an actively controlled rectifier circuit. The method includes operating the...