ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,610, issued on July 28, was assigned to Solaires Entreprises Inc. (Victoria, Canada).

"Self-adherent flexible thin film stacks and photovoltaic devices including same" was invented by Mahshid Sam (Victoria, Canada) and Alfonso Fabian de la Fuente Sanchez (Victoria, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible photovoltaic thin film device is provided, the flexible photovoltaic thin film device comprising: a support film; wires, the support film retaining the wires, the wires terminating in at least one contact point; and a plurality of flexible photovoltaic thin film stacks adhered on the support film and electrically connected t...