US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on July 28 for "Power routing module with a switching matrix for a solar cell array" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,550, issued on July 28, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Power routing module with a switching matrix for a solar cell array" was invented by Eric Rehder (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power routing module with a switching matrix for electrically interconnecting a plurality of solar cells in an array, wherein the switching matrix is configured to dynamically route power among a plurality of current pathways connected between the power routing module and the plurality of solar cells. At least one of the solar cells has at least one cropped corner resulting in a corner region, an area of a substrate ...