Patents by Inventor NATASHA V. ANBALAGAN

NATASHA V. ANBALAGAN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Melting snow and/or ice accumulating on modules of a photovoltaic array
    Patent number: 11870389
    Abstract: A controller of a power generation system provides, in response to a request or a determination to initiate a heating mode for a photovoltaic (PV) array, a first instruction to an inverter coupled between the PV array and a power grid to apply an initial backfeed voltage on PV modules of the PV array. The PV array comprises a plurality of strings of PV modules coupled in parallel, and a first subset of the strings of PV modules are online and a second subset of the strings of PV modules are offline. The controller monitors current data from a set of current sensors that each measure current provided from a corresponding set of strings of PV modules of the plurality of strings of PV modules of the PV array. The controller also provides a second command to the inverter to adjust the backfeed voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTUS HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Pantano, Natasha V. Anbalagan
  • MELTING SNOW AND/OR ICE ACCUMULATING ON MODULES OF A PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY
    Publication number: 20230088121
    Abstract: A controller of a power generation system provides, in response to a request or a determination to initiate a heating mode for a photovoltaic (PV) array, a first instruction to an inverter coupled between the PV array and a power grid to apply an initial backfeed voltage on PV modules of the PV array. The PV array comprises a plurality of strings of PV modules coupled in parallel, and a first subset of the strings of PV modules are online and a second subset of the strings of PV modules are offline. The controller monitors current data from a set of current sensors that each measure current provided from a corresponding set of strings of PV modules of the plurality of strings of PV modules of the PV array. The controller also provides a second command to the inverter to adjust the backfeed voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: JONATHAN PANTANO, NATASHA V. ANBALAGAN