US Patent Issued to Nippon Sheet Glass, PILKINGTON GROUP on Sept. 22 for "Solar cells and conductive transparent substrates for solar cells" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,505, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and PILKINGTON GROUP Ltd. (Nr. Ormskirk Lancashire, Great Britain).

"Solar cells and conductive transparent substrates for solar cells" was invented by Naoya Kobamoto (Tokyo), Satoshi Tanaka (Tokyo), Jun Ni (Maumee, Ohio), Lila Raj Dahal (Perrysburg, Ohio), Srikanth Varanasi (Ottawa Hills, Ohio) and Keiko Tsuri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrically conductive transparent substrate for a solar cell includes: a light-transmitting substrate; an electrically conductive layer facing a face of the substrate and having irregularities at a face oppo...