ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,837, issued on April 7, was assigned to KYOCERA SOC Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Photovoltaic device" was invented by Satoru Kumagai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuya Shibasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomonari Yahata (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic device includes a first photovoltaic cell configured to perform photovoltaic power generation by using, as irradiation light, light generated by a light source device including a laser light source or a discharge lamp light source. The first photovoltaic cell is arranged such that maximum irradiance (a light amount per unit area in a light receiving portion of the first pho...