ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,760, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Wusong Tao (Haining, China), Ningbo Zhang (Haining, China), Luchuang Wang (Haining, China), Yingying Peng (Haining, China) and Zhiqiu Guo (Haining, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell is provided, including: a substrate including a center region and edge regions respectively arranged on two opposing sides of the center region, fingers arranged at intervals along the first direction and extending along a second direction, pad groups arranged...