US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR, JINKO SOLAR on March 31 for "Solar cell and photovoltaic module" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,528, issued on March 31, 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 Huimin Li (Haining, China), Menglei Xu (Haining, China), Jie Yang (Haining, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Haining, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell includes: a substrate having a front surface and a opposite rear surface; a first dielectric layer formed over the rear surface; a first doped conductive layer formed over a surface of the first dielectric layer away from the substrate; grooves arranged alternatingly in a first direction, penetra...