US Patent Issued to THERMO KING on July 28 for "Apparatus comprising a photovoltaic system" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,724, issued on July 28, was assigned to THERMO KING LLC (Minneapolis).

"Apparatus comprising a photovoltaic system" was invented by Alexander Iglizn (Erkrath, Germany), Matthew Srnec (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Vikram Madineni (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus configured to supply electrical power to a transport refrigeration unit, the apparatus comprising a power converter and a photovoltaic system including a photovoltaic cell. The power converter includes a rectifier, an inverter and a DC bus internal to the power converter. The DC bus is electrically connected to an out...