ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,399, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Photovoltaic module including impact absorption structure" was invented by Yongseok Jun (Seoul, South Korea), Yoonmook Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Chanyong Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Chang Hyun Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a photovoltaic module including an encapsulation part, a plurality of solar cells disposed in the encapsulating part such that angles thereof with respect to a height direction of the encapsulation part is 30 degrees to 90 degrees, and impact absorption parts...