ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,541, issued on April 14, was assigned to IDEMITSU KOSAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion module, paddle, and method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion module" was invented by Kyohei Horiguchi (Tokyo), Motoshi Nakamura (Tokyo) and Mikio Hamano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a photoelectric conversion module capable of suppressing a short circuit between photoelectric conversion elements adjacent to each other. The photoelectric conversion module (100) comprises a first photoelectric conversion element (10a) including a conductive substrate (20a) and a second photoelectric conversion element (10b)...