US 12,265,413 B2
System and method for regulating power output of multiple solar substrings
Linda Stacey Irish, San Francisco, CA (US); and Weston Braun, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Optivolt Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Optivolt Labs, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 20, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/610,983.
Application 18/610,983 is a continuation of application No. 18/129,321, filed on Mar. 31, 2023, granted, now 11,960,313.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/326,121, filed on Mar. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0385638 A1, Nov. 21, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G05F 1/67 (2006.01); G05F 1/70 (2006.01)
CPC G05F 1/67 (2013.01) [G05F 1/70 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a power supply coupled to a set of solar substrings and configured to receive an input voltage generated by the set of solar substrings;
an adder coupled to a gain control of the power supply and configured to modify a voltage gain of the input voltage;
a modulation signal generator coupled to the adder and configured to modulate the voltage gain of the input voltage;
a de-modulator:
coupled to the modulation signal generator and the power supply; and
configured to de-modulate power signals output from the power supply; and
a integrator:
coupled to the de-modulator and the adder; and
configured to, based on de-modulated signals output from the de-modulator, output a voltage step for the power supply, the voltage step configured to drive the input voltage toward a target output voltage.