US Patent Issued to First Solar on March 31 for "Photovoltaic devices and methods of making" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,516, issued on March 31, was assigned to First Solar Inc. (Phoenix).

"Photovoltaic devices and methods of making" was invented by Christopher DiRubio (Perrysburg, Ohio), Markus Gloeckler (Perrysburg, Ohio), Weixin Li (Waterville, Ohio), Richard Malik Jr. (Rossford, Ohio), Riley Maxwell (Toledo, Ohio), Jason Sharrer (Millbury, Ohio) and Jigish Trivedi (Perrysburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photovoltaic devices, and methods of making the same, are described. A photovoltaic device comprises a plurality of electrically connected photovoltaic cells, wherein the photovoltaic cells comprise a conducting layer having a first surfa...