ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,694, issued on March 3, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Photovoltaic module with a laminated potted printed circuit board" was invented by Dawei Kuo (Fremont, Calif.), Lewis Abra (San Francisco) and Richard Perkins (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system. In some embodiments, the system includes a photovoltaic module and a module-level power electronics device electrically connected to the photovoltaic module. In some embodiments, the module-level power electronics device comprises a laminated potted printed circuit board. In some embodiments, ...