ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,018, issued on March 24, was assigned to Solaredge Technologies Ltd. (Herzeliya, Israel).

"Power conversion device with controller auxiliary power" was invented by Roy Shkoury (Rehovot, Israel) and Ohad Gidon (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a power device in a power system. The power device may include a plurality of power stages, which may reduce the number of connectors needed for the power system. The plurality of power stages in the same power device may allow the power device to be configured with additional functionalities."

The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 20...