ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,220, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Solaredge Technologies Ltd. (Herzeliya, Israel).

"Method and apparatus to enable communication and control in a power system" was invented by David Braginsky (Yokne'am, Israel), Yoav Galin (Raanana, Israel) and Ilan Yoscovich (Givatayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network unit may be operatively attached to power lines of an interconnected power system and/or a device such as a power module that may further include a communication interface. The network unit may be operable to superimpose a first signal representative of a sensed parameter of the power system onto the power lines, ...