US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW, UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT on May 19 for "Technical weave for photovoltaic modules" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,263, issued on May 19, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT (Hasselt, Belgium).

"Technical weave for photovoltaic modules" was invented by Tom Borgers (Leuven, Belgium) and Jonathan Govaerts (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic module includes at least one string of solar cells wherein the solar cells are electrically connected in series using a plurality of connecting elements, wherein each connecting element electrically connects a frontside of one of the solar cells of the at least one string with a backside of the neighboring solar cell of the at least one string; a weave of...