ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,569, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Metallization of solar cells" was invented by Richard Hamilton Sewell (Los Altos, Calif.), David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse (Oakland, Calif.), Junbo Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Cudzinovic (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Paul Loscutoff (Castro Valley, Calif.), Joseph Behnke (San Jose, Calif.) and Michel Arsene Olivier Ngamo Toko (Brussels).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for the metallization of solar cells and the resulting solar cells are described. In an example, a method of fabricating a solar cell involves forming a barrier layer on a semiconductor region...