US Patent Issued to APPLIED MATERIALS ITALIA on March 24 for "Method and apparatus for printing on a substrate for the production of a solar cell" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,312, issued on March 24, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS ITALIA S.R.L. (San Biagio di Callalta, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for printing on a substrate for the production of a solar cell" was invented by Alessandro Voltan (Morgano, Italy), Marco Galiazzo (Quinto di Treviso, Italy), Oscar Borsato (Padernello, Italy) and Davide Colla (Treviso, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (500) for printing on a substrate (102) for the production of a solar cell, the method comprising: printing (501) a wet pattern on the substrate (102); extracting (503) three-dimensional morphological data of the wet pattern (104') in real-time u...