ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,291, issued on July 21, 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 Bike Zhang (Haining, China), Guangming Liao (Haining, China), Lin'an Zhang (Haining, China), Jingsheng Jin (Haining, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Haining, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solar cell includes: a substrate; a tunneling dielectric layer disposed over a first surface of the substrate; a plurality of doped conductive layers arranged at intervals over the tunneling dielectric layer; a plurality of first electrodes each extending in a first ...