US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Solar power generation control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,802, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Solar power generation control device" was invented by Yuma Miyamoto (Miyoshi, Japan) and Takashi Fukai (Obu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar power generation control device for controlling power generation of a solar panel, comprising: a first control unit that derives, by MPPT control, a control voltage for causing the solar panel to generate the largest electric power based on the output power of the solar panel; a second control unit that derives, based on the output current of the solar panel, a correction voltage for correcting the contro...