ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,651, issued on April 21, was assigned to LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Xi'an, China).
"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Zhenguo Li (Xi'an, China), Hongbo Tong (Xi'an, China), Yupeng Jin (Xi'an, China) and Yuan Yu (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell including: a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, and a plurality of side surfaces adjacently connected between the first and the second surfaces; a passivated contact structure, located on a part of the first surface, including an interface passivation layer and a first doped semicon...