ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,548, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Photovoltaic cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Jie Mao (Zhejiang, China), Zhao Wang (Zhejiang, China), Peiting Zheng (Zhejiang, China), Jie Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic cell is provided, including a substrate having a front surface with metal pattern regions and a rear surface, first pyramid structures in each metal pattern region, platform protrusion structures on the rear surface, a first tunneling layer and a first doped...