US Patent Issued to Tesla on April 7 for "System and methods for achieving a micro louver effect in a photovoltaic cell" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,838, issued on April 7, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and methods for achieving a micro louver effect in a photovoltaic cell" was invented by Alex Christopher Mayer (Mill Valley, Calif.), Brian Edward Atchley (Petaluma, Calif.) and Andreas Meisel (Novato, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems provide for solar panel arrays that can be aesthetically pleasing and appear seamless to an observer. Micro louvered structures can be incorporated into photovoltaic (PV) stacks, such that light entering a PV stack that is reflected off of embedded solar cells is not direc...