ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,428, issued on June 23, was assigned to SMA Solar Technology AG (Niestetal, Germany).

"Method for operating a power supply plant, and power supply plant" was invented by Andreas Knobloch (Kassel, Germany), Christian Hardt (Kassel, Germany), Mats Bernsdorff (Kassel, Germany) and Daniel Premm (Kaufungen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating a power supply plant having a plurality of inverters and a plant controller connected to the inverters for communication, the power supply plant has a grid connection, which is connected to an AC voltage grid. Via the grid connection, the inverters exchange electrical int...