ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,383, issued on June 30, was assigned to LONGi Solar Technology (Taizhou) Co. Ltd. (Taizhou, China).
"Back-contact solar cell" was invented by Xueliang Zhao (Taizhou, China), Weiming Lu (Taizhou, China), Zhonglan Li (Taizhou, China), Zhilin Liang (Taizhou, China), Hua Li (Taizhou, China) and Yupeng Jin (Taizhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a back contact solar cell, relating to the field of solar cell technologies. In one implementation, a back contact solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate, a first doped semiconductor layer, and a second doped semiconductor layer. The semiconductor substrate...