ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,190, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ELECTRICITE DE FRANCE (Paris), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS- (Paris), ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE (Palaiseau, France), TOTALENERGIES ONETECH (Courbevoie, France) and INSTITUT PHOTOVOLTAIQUE D'ILE DE FRANCE (IPVF) (Palaiseau, France).

"Process for optimising the service life of a bifacial multijunction photovoltaic module and photovoltaic module or panel suited to this process" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Puel (Paris) and Arthur Julien (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lifetime optimization method for a two-sided photovoltaic module, which includes at least one mult...