US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on July 14 for "Photovoltaic system with light concentrating optical component" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,894, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Photovoltaic system with light concentrating optical component" was invented by Fahad Gallab Al-Amri (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The HCPV system includes a plurality of modules connected to an array, a casing, a plurality of inverted pyramids, a plurality of solar cells, and a backplate. Each module includes an optical component that concentrates light onto a single solar cell and a single inverted pyramid with solid lateral faces connects the optical component at a peripheral edge of a base of the pyramid ...