US Patent Issued to Tigo Energy Innovations on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for an enhanced watchdog in solar module installations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,407, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Tigo Energy Innovations LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for an enhanced watchdog in solar module installations" was invented by Ron Hadar (Capitola, Calif.) and Shmuel Arditi (Discovery Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically or remotely rendering a solar array safe during an emergency or maintenance. A watchdog unit is disclosed for monitoring a signal from a central controller. If the signal is lost, interrupted, or becomes irregular, or if a shutdown signal is received, then the watchdog unit can shut down one or more solar modules. Shutting down a...