US Patent Issued to Imec vzw, Universiteit Hasselt on Aug. 25 for "Method for continuous photovoltaic cell stringing and photovoltaic cell assembly" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,876, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Imec vzw (Leuven, Belgium) and Universiteit Hasselt (Hasselt, Belgium).

"Method for continuous photovoltaic cell stringing and photovoltaic cell assembly" was invented by Tom Borgers (Liege, Belgium) and Marc Meuris (Keerbergen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to methods for continuous photovoltaic cell stringing and photovoltaic cell assemblies. An example method includes providing a foil in a provision direction in a continuous manner. The method also includes cutting at least one slit into the foil along the provision direction. Additionally, the method incl...