ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,547, issued on July 14, was assigned to DUALSUN (Marseilles, France).

"Photovoltaic and thermal solar panel" was invented by Laetitia Brottier (Marseilles, France), Jerome Mouterde (Marseilles, France), Remi Heutte (Marseilles, France), Seirigne Sarr-Tagawa (Marseilles, France) and Valentin Delachaux (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid solar panel including at least one single-piece section resulting from extrusion, the section including a wall forming the aforementioned bottom and top faces of the heat exchanger, and the section includes: a plurality of longitudinal fins extending substantially perpendicularl...