ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,853, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CNBM RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED GLASS MATERIALS GROUP Co. LTD. (Bengbu, China).

"Solar module with patterned cover plate and optical interference layer" was invented by Rene Kalio (Leipzig, Germany), Joerg Palm (Munich), Jens Kullmann (Jessen, Germany), Manuel Dias (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Sven Ring (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar module having on the front a cover plate with an outer surface and an inner surface is described. The outer surface has a patterned region, on which an optical interference layer for reflecting light within a predefined wavelength range is arranged. ...