US Patent Issued to KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH on May 19 for "Reusable photovoltaic module" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,262, issued on May 19, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF ENERGY RESEARCH (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Reusable photovoltaic module" was invented by Kyung Soo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Joo Eo (Daejeon, South Korea), Soo Hyun Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Gi Hwa Kang (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a solar photovoltaic module that is easily recyclable. In the solar photovoltaic module disclosed herein, each component is coupled to each other in a physical manner. Therefore, since the solar photovoltaic module may be physically separated, recycling of the solar photovoltaic module may be very easi...