US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on May 27 for "Process for manufacturing a solar cell string, solar cell string, processing device for a solar cell string, and use of such a processing device for manufacturing a solar cell string" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,607, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Process for manufacturing a solar cell string, solar cell string, processing device for a solar cell string, and use of such a processing device for manufacturing a solar cell string" was invented by Jan Tobias Paschen (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Nekarda (Freiburg, Germany) and Andreas Brand (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a solar cell string includes: providing a solar cell stack having at least five solar cells which each have a front side and a rear side, the solar cells are a...