ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,918, issued on July 8.
"Method and systems for recycling end-of-life photovoltaic modules" was invented by Taesung Kim (Lake Forest, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decommissioning a solar module installation including a plurality of solar modules includes selecting a first solar module of the plurality of solar modules, the first solar module including a plurality of solar cells, a front layer, a back sheet, a first layer of encapsulant between the front layer and the plurality of solar cells, and a second layer of encapsulant between the back sheet and the plurality of solar cells. The method further includes applyin...