ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,820, issued on April 7, was assigned to Suzhou Maizhan Automation Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Method for manufacturing novel busbarless solar photovoltaic module" was invented by Xin Wang (Suzhou, China) and Jing Zheng (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing a novel busbarless solar photovoltaic module and relates to the technical field of solar photovoltaic device manufacturing. The present invention uses a metal connecting ribbon to connect a cell and the front and back of the cell are designed to remove PAD points, which reduces optical occlusion on the sur...