US Patent Issued to BMIC on Feb. 25 for "Patterned photovoltaic cell arrangements in solar module laminations" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,431, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BMIC LLC (Dallas).

"Patterned photovoltaic cell arrangements in solar module laminations" was invented by Babak Farhangi (Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic module incorporates a lamination including a back-sheet, an array of solar cells supported on the back-sheet, and a transparent protective covering over the array of solar cells. The solar cells are arranged in offset or staggered patterns on the back-sheet to present a more random and less rigid industrial appearance to an observer. In some cases, cleaved solar cell segments are arranged into groups that ...