US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Sept. 15 for "Method for treating a photovoltaic module by light soaking" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,178, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for treating a photovoltaic module by light soaking" was invented by Jordi Veirman (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Tristan Gageot (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a photovoltaic module, the method including in succession a first procedure of exposing at least one photovoltaic cell of the photovoltaic module to electromagnetic radiation, during which the temperature of the photovoltaic cell increases until reaching a temperature, referred to as performance enhancement temper...