US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on April 14 for "Photovoltaic module assembly" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,606, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO (The Hague, Netherlands).

"Photovoltaic module assembly" was invented by Nicolaas Jacobus Joseph Dekker (The Hague, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic (PV) module (1) comprising a positive terminal (5), a negative terminal (6), and at least two sub-modules. Each of the at least two sub-modules (10a-c) comprises x parallel-connected sub-strings (13), wherein each of the x parallel-connected sub-strings (13) comprises y series-connected sub-cells (16), wherein the y series-connected sub-cells (16)...