ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,483, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining, China).

"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Zhao Wang (Haining, China), Yuanfang Zhang (Haining, China), Peiting Zheng (Haining, China), Jie Yang (Haining, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Haining, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a solar cell and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes a substrate, an emitter structure, a doped conductive structure, a first electrode and a second electrode. The emitter structure is disposed on a first surface of the substrate and includes a first heavily doped region and a first lightly...