ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,653, issued on April 21, was assigned to TRINA SOLAR Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).

"Solar cell, preparation method thereof and photovoltaic module" was invented by Yunyun Hu (Changzhou, China), Wei Liu (Changzhou, China) and Daming Chen (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell, a preparation method thereof, and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate, a first substrate doped layer, a second substrate doped layer, a first passivation layer, and a first doped semiconductor layer. The semiconductor substrate includes a first surface, and the first surface includes a first region and ...