ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,132, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SHENZHEN HELLO TECH ENERGY Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Curved photovoltaic member and photovoltaic building surface" was invented by Huajun Yu (Shenzhen, China), Zhongwei Sun (Shenzhen, China), Yanjun Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Rao Fu (Shenzhen, China), Dengfeng Fan (Shenzhen, China) and Jie Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curved photovoltaic member includes a power generation layer, a current transmission layer, a front plate, and a back plate. The current transmission layer is located at a second side of the power generation layer and is electrically connected to the power...