ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,682, issued on April 21, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Shangrao, China).

"Solar cell and manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module" was invented by Menglei Xu (Haining, China), Bairu Li (Haining, China), Jie Yang (Haining, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Haining, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solar cell and a manufacturing method thereof, and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes: a bottom cell, a perovskite top cell, an inter layer between the bottom cell and the perovskite top cell, and a back electrode located on a back surface of the bo...