US Patent Issued to Tigo Energy Innovations on Aug. 25 for "Enhanced system and method for string balancing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,270, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tigo Energy Innovations LLC (Dallas).

"Enhanced system and method for string balancing" was invented by Shmuel Arditi (Discovery Bay, Calif.) and Ron Hadar (Capitola, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system, including: a plurality of photovoltaic panels having outputs connected in series as a string to provide a string output; a converter coupled to the string to receive the string output as an input and generate a direct current output from the input; a series connection of the string output and the direct current output; and a bus powered at least in part by the series con...