US Patent Issued to ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE on May 12 for "Self-repairing multi-junction photovoltaic cell and method for self-repairing such a cell" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,435, issued on May 12, was assigned to ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (Paris).

"Self-repairing multi-junction photovoltaic cell and method for self-repairing such a cell" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Puel (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic cell configured to enable the use of first photovoltaic stacks with perovskite absorber in a solar panel as an electrical generator on the sunlight side of the solar panel, while second photovoltaic stacks with perovskite absorber that are on the shadow side of the solar panel undergo a self-repair process during the day. A photovoltaic device includes a solar panel provided with such phot...