ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,651, issued on April 21, was assigned to HANWHA Q CELLS GMBH (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany).
"Photovoltaic module and a method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Michael Mette (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany) and Thoralf Harder (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic module includes several cell rows of serially connected photovoltaic cells and one or more bypass components. The cell rows are arranged next to each other perpendicular to a current direction which is formed in the serially connected photovoltaic cells during operation and are connected in such a way that at least two adjacent cell r...