ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,549, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Metallization and stringing for back-contact solar cells" was invented by Akira Terao (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metallization and stringing methods for back-contact solar cells, and resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, in one embodiment, a method involves aligning conductive wires over the back sides of adjacent solar cells, wherein the wires are aligned substantially parallel to P-type and N-type doped diffusion regions of the solar cells. The method involves bonding the wires to the back side of each of the solar cell...