ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,308, issued on July 28, was assigned to TAYLOR TECHNOLOGIES HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Reducing risk of reverse bias in partially-shaded solar modules" was invented by Joris Witteman (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Michiel Roelofs (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Siva Sembian (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a solar power generation system comprising a plurality of photovoltaic cells, the controller comprising: a meter instrument configured for determining an electrical parameter representative of an open circuit voltage of at least one photovoltaic cell of the plurality of photovoltaic cells...