US Patent Issued to Lightyear Layer IPCo on June 30 for "Solar module with improved bonding" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,360, issued on June 30, was assigned to Lightyear Layer IPCo B.V. (Helmond, Netherlands).

"Solar module with improved bonding" was invented by Emanuele Cornagliotti (Uccle, Belgium), Simone Regondi (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Dario Di Carlo Rasi (Helmond, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a solar module with improved bonding. The solar module (100) comprises a front encapsulant layer (104), solar cells (106), a middle encapsulant layer (108), a back contact foil (210b) with a patterned copper pattern (210b) thereon, and a back encapsulant layer (112). Inventors found that, when producing such a sola...