US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on Oct. 27 for "Photo-voltaic element and method of manufacturing the same" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,728, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Photo-voltaic element and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Herbert Lifka (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Siegfried Christiaan Veenstra (Heeze, Netherlands), Maarten Sander Dorenkamper (Rosmalen, Netherlands), Hieronymus Antonius Josephus Maria Andriessen (Beerse, Belgium) and Huibert Johan Van Den Heuvel (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photo-voltaic element comprising a stack of layers is disclosed, as well as a method of making the photo-voltaic element...