ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,767, issued on March 17, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining, China) and JINKO SOLAR (HAINING) Co. LTD. (Haining City, China).

"Solar cell, tandem solar cell, and photovoltaic module" was invented by Guangming Liao (Zhejiang, China), Yulin Wang (Zhejiang, China), Jingsheng Jin (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solar cell, a tandem solar cell, and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes a substrate, a doped conductive layer, and a dielectric layer. The substrate has a first surface, where the first surface includes electrode regions and non-elect...