US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on April 21 for "Solar-cell module" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,628, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Solar-cell module" was invented by Li Carlos Rendler (Freiburg, Germany), Christian Reichel (Freiburg, Germany), Nils Klasen (Freiburg, Germany), Ammar Tummalieh (Freiburg, Germany) and Dirk Holger Neuhaus (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell module, having a plurality of module segments, wherein the module segments have at least two subsegments which each have at least one first solar cell string and each solar cell string has a plurality of solar cells interconnected in series."

The pa...