US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Dec. 9 for "Solar-cell module" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,622, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Solar-cell module" was invented by Li Carlos Rendler (Freiburg, Germany), Christian Reichel (Freiburg, Germany) and Christoph Kutter (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell module, having at least one first module segment, wherein the first module segment includes a first subsegment and at least one second subsegment, the first and the second subsegment each have at least one solar cell string and each solar cell string has a plurality of solar cells interconnected in series. The first module se...