ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,713, issued on March 3, was assigned to TRINA SOLAR Co. LTD. (Changzhou, China).
"Back contact solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Yunyun Hu (Changzhou, China), Guangtao Yang (Changzhou, China), Daming Chen (Changzhou, China) and Yifeng Chen (Changzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solar cell includes a substrate, multiple conductive layers and a electrode structure. Two adjacent conductive layers having opposite electric polarities are electrically insulated from each other. The electrode structure includes multiple gate electrodes and multiple gate lines. Gate electrodes with opposite electric polarities...