ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,249, issued on June 3, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).
"Large-area solar module via continuous additive lamination method" was invented by Thomas Gerald Allen (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Emmanuel P. Van Kerschaver (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Michele De Bastiani (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed Hesham Balawi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Michael Filipe Salvador (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic, PV, module includes plural PV sections, each PV section including plural lamellas. A first lamella of the plural lamellas includes a back sheet, a first encapsulant ...