US Patent Issued to Voltiris on May 12 for "Device and method for sunlight-based power generation" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,256, issued on May 12, was assigned to Voltiris SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Device and method for sunlight-based power generation" was invented by Jonas Roch (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Dominik Blaser (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an energy generation device (1) comprising a reflection panel (11) presenting a reflecting surface, an energy generation module (12) and a holding structure (13) holding the reflection panel (11) and the energy generation module (12) together, wherein the reflection panel (11) is configured to filter an incident sunlight thereby letting a first portion of...