US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on May 12 for "Solar cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,490, issued on May 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Solar cell" was invented by Taisuke Matsui (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Higuchi (Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Kawano (Osaka, Japan), Akio Matsushita (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Negami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell includes a first substrate, a first electrode layer, a first electron transport layer, a first photoelectric conversion layer, a first hole transport layer, a second electrode layer, a third electrode layer, a second electron transport layer, a second photoelectric conversion layer, a second hole transpo...