ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,443, issued on July 29, was assigned to Energy Materials Corp. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Photovoltaic structures having a composite conductor" was invented by Thomas Nathaniel Tombs (Rochester, N.Y.) and Scott Kenneth Christensen (North Chili, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bifacial photovoltaic structure includes a transparent substrate, a perovskite absorber layer overlaying the substrate, a transparent first composite conductor interposed between the substrate and the perovskite absorber layer, and a transparent second composite conductor disposed over the perovskite absorber layer. The first composite conductor includes a first ...