ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,568, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TONGWEI SOLAR (HEFEI) Co. LTD. (Hefei, China).

"Shingled cell, cell unit, and shingled photovoltaic assembly" was invented by Bingwei Yin (Hefei, China), Huaming Zhou (Hefei, China), Yan Li (Hefei, China) and Gang Shi (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a shingled cell, a cell unit, and a shingled photovoltaic assembly. The cell unit includes a cell. The front side of the cell includes a plurality of parallel front-side fine grid lines. The back side of the cell includes a plurality of parallel back-side fine grid lines and a front-side connection line. The front-side con...