ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,361, issued on June 30, was assigned to Jinko Solar (Haining) Co. Ltd. (Haining City, China).

"Photovoltaic cell, method for forming same, and photovoltaic module" was invented by Nannan Yang (Haining City, China), Jingsheng Jin (Haining City, China) and Bike Zhang (Haining City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic cell is provided, including a substrate having a surface with a marked region configured to mark product information of the photovoltaic cell and a non-marked region; a first texture structure in the marked region, including at least one first protrusion structure and at least one second protrusion structur...