ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,574, issued on July 28, was assigned to TONGWEI SOLAR (CHENGDU) Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China) and TONGWEI SOLAR (JINTANG) Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Solar cell, ALOx depositing method therefor, and cell back passivation structure and method" was invented by Zhi Huang (Hefei, China), Lin Zhang (Hefei, China), Peng Zhang (Hefei, China), Dong Yang (Hefei, China), Tao Xu (Hefei, China), Xujin Zhai (Hefei, China), Taihong Xie (Hefei, China) and Shengyi Xiao (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the technical field of solar cell preparation, and provides a solar cell, an AlOx depositing method therefor...