US Patent Issued to First Solar on July 22 for "Photovoltaic devices and method of making" (Ohio, New York, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,426, issued on July 22, was assigned to First Solar Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Photovoltaic devices and method of making" was invented by Holly Ann Blaydes (Perrysburg, Ohio), Kristian William Andreini (Burnt Hills, N.Y.), William Hullinger Huber (Ottawa Hills, Ohio), Eugene Thomas Hinners (Gansevoort, N.Y.), Joseph John Shiang (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Yong Liang (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Jongwoo Choi (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic device is presented. The photovoltaic device includes a layer stack; and an absorber layer is disposed on the layer stack. The absorber layer comprises selenium, wherein an atomic concentrati...