US Patent Issued to REC Solar on Sept. 8 for "Solar module" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,266, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to REC Solar PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Solar module" was invented by Thiyagu Subramani (Singapore) and Shankar Gauri Sridhara (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar module comprising a plurality of solar cell strings arranged side-by-side, each solar cell string having positive and negative terminals at opposite ends thereof, the plurality of solar cell strings comprising: a first group of adjacent solar cell strings, each oriented such that their positive terminals are disposed towards a first end of the solar module; and a second group of adjacent solar cell strings, each oriented such ...