ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,361, issued on June 30, was assigned to CLEAN ENERGY FACTORY Co. LTD. (Nemuro, Japan) and MERS FORS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Solar module" was invented by Hiroyuki Kamata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a solar module enabling prevention of a large decrease in power generation efficiency by decoupling only a cell group where an in-module failure has occurred. A solar module in which a plurality of solar cell groups, each including a plurality of solar cells, is arranged and connected via an in-module parallel connection line, wherein the solar cell groups each include a cell group controller that monitors a power generatio...