US Patent Issued to SolAero Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Multijunction solar cells" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,727, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Multijunction solar cells" was invented by Daniel Derkacs (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Daniel McGlynn (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell having a first band gap and positioned for receiving an incoming light beam; a second solar subcell disposed below and adjacent to and lattice matched with said upper first solar subcell, and having a second band gap smaller than said first band gap; wherein the upper first solar subcell covers less than the entire upper surface of the s...