US Patent Issued to CHEONGJU UNIVERSITY Industry & Academy Cooperation Foundation on April 29 for "Transparent photovoltaic cell" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,829, issued on April 29, was assigned to CHEONGJU UNIVERSITY Industry & Academy Cooperation Foundation (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Transparent photovoltaic cell" was invented by Je Ha Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transparent photovoltaic cell is proposed. The transparent photovoltaic cell may include a transparent substrate, a plurality of micro-pillars arranged on an upper part of the transparent substrate and formed with respective transparent windows, through which incident sunlight transmits, on respective upper parts thereof. The transparent photovoltaic cell may also include a photoelectric convert...