ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,863, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Back-side solar cell soldering" was invented by Vergil Rodriguez Sandoval (Calamba City, Philippines).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of soldering wire, such as traces or ribbon, onto single or multi-busbar solar cells. Devices constructed with such methods may also be covered. Methods may include providing a wire, such as a trace or ribbon, tack soldering the wire at one or more locations to a workpiece, such as solar cell component, and then passing the combined tacked wire and solar cell component through a heating zone where heat is applied to the ...