ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,501, issued on July 7, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for connecting solar cell string" was invented by Toru Sawada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: a first collector electrodes forming step P1; a second collector electrodes forming step P2 of forming a plurality of second collector electrodes by applying a pasty second collector electrode material; a dividing guidelines forming step P3 of forming on the solar cell a plurality of dividing guidelines, each of which is formed between each two adjacent first collector electrodes and between each two adjacent second collector electrodes...