ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,481, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HoFi GmbH (Winneden, Germany) and Josef Joachim Gmeiner (Pressath, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for refurbishing back sides of solar modules" was invented by Horst Fischer (Winnenden, Germany) and Josef Joachim Gmeiner (Pressath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for refurbishing back sides of solar modules, has, successively in a direction of treatment, a washing device, a drying device, a solar module back side coating device, and a coating treatment device. There is also described a method for refurbishing back sides of solar modules, in which the solar modules are was...