ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,277, issued on July 21, was assigned to Alpha Assembly Solutions Inc. (Waterbury, Conn.).

"Solder paste for module fabrication of solar cells" was invented by Narahari Pujari (Waterbury, Conn.), Siuli Sarkar (Waterbury, Conn.) and Carl Bilgrien (Waterbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a solar module by interconnection of a plurality of photovoltaic (PV) cells in which at least a first PV cell is interconnected to a second PV cell using an electrically-conductive adherent comprising or consisting of a solder paste. The solder paste comprises particles of solder alloy dispersed in a solder flux. The sold...