ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,453, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TONGWEI SOLAR (CHENGDU) Co. LTD. (Chengdu, China).

"Photovoltaic module, preparation method thereof and photovoltaic power generation apparatus" was invented by Mingmao Yu (Chengdu, China), Zheng Sun (Chengdu, China), Song Peng (Chengdu, China), Haiping Shen (Chengdu, China), Zhengyue Xia (Chengdu, China) and Guoqiang Xing (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic module, a prepared method thereof and a photovoltaic power generation apparatus are provided. A refractive index of a plurality of bonding units to light, a refractive index of an encapsulation layer to light, a thic...