US Patent Issued to Zhejiang Jinko Solar, Jinko Solar on Dec. 2 for "Solar cell and photovoltaic module" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,547, issued on Dec. 2, 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 Xiu Feng (Zhejiang, China), Menglei Xu (Zhejiang, China), Jie Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell including: substrate having front and back surfaces, the back surface includes first, second and gap regions, the first and second regions are staggered and spaced from each other in a first direction, and each gap region is provided between adjacent first and second regions, first pyramidal textu...