ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,576, issued on July 7, was assigned to CNBM RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED GLASS MATERIALS GROUP Co. LTD. (Bengbu, China) and TRIUMPH SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Ventilation structure for BIPV modules" was invented by Yilei Shen (Schwetzingen, Germany) and Nan Chen (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel ventilation structure for BIPV modules, which comprises photovoltaic modules matched with a building wall, the back of the photovoltaic modules is installed on the facade of the building wall in parallel through a plurality of steel columns, a ventilation gap is f...