ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,768, issued on March 17, was assigned to Tongwei Solar (Chengdu) Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).
"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Chuan Liao (Chengdu, China), Qin Gan (Chengdu, China), Yi Yang (Chengdu, China), Xiajie Meng (Chengdu, China) and Guoqiang Xing (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell and a photovoltaic module are provided. The solar cell includes a substrate provided with a first face and a second face, at least one of which is a side of the substrate. On shared prismatic edges and/or shared corners where the first surface and the second surface are adjacent, the substrate is also prov...