ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,863, issued on June 9, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining, China).

"Photovoltaic module and production method for the same" was invented by Zhiqiu Guo (Haining, China), Yidong Hu (Haining, China) and Qingbo Li (Haining, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for producing a photovoltaic module and a photovoltaic module. The method includes: providing a plurality of solar cells, each respective solar cell has an overlapping area; applying adhesive to first areas in the overlapping area of each solar cell, the first areas allow the respective solar cell to be welde...