ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,792, issued on Aug. 4.
"PV laminate with shingled PV cells and methods of assembly" was invented by Mingchong Dai (Yantai City, China), Jianfang Si (Kunshan City, China), Qiang Zhang (Zhenjiang City, China), Hongshuai Xu (Wuxi City, China), Jialin Shen (Bozhou City, China) and Nicholas Berry (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PV laminate and methods of assembly are provided. The PV cells of exemplary PV laminates may comprise a shingled linear array of PV cells where one or more spacers are employed near the connections between adjacent PV cells of the linear array. These spacers can serve to reduce stresses during asse...