US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on June 10 for "Solar cell module" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,953, issued on June 10, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Solar cell module" was invented by Li Carlos Rendler (Freiburg, Germany), Max Mittag (Freiburg, Germany) and Holger Neuhaus (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell module, having at least four module segments and a plurality of bypass elements. Each module segment includes at least two solar cell strings connected in parallel and each string includes multiple solar cells connected in series and the four module segments are connected in series. The second and third module segments are connected...