ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,542, issued on June 23, was assigned to Backbone (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. (Changshu City, China).

"Photovoltaic frame and photovoltaic module" was invented by Renjun Lin (Changshu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to the field of photovoltaic module technology and discloses a photovoltaic frame and a photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic frame, comprising multiple steel frame strips connected end-to-end in sequence and corner connectors joining steel frame strips adjacent to each other at a corner; wherein each steel frame strip comprises: a first mounting chamber and second mounting chamber, the second mounting ...