ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,170, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).
"Integrated cell and circuit interconnection" was invented by Natasha Hjerrild (Berkeley, Calif.) and David Kavulak (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated cell and circuit interconnection for photovoltaic devices is disclosed. Interconnection componentry includes conductive material utilized to connect a negative terminal of a photovoltaic cell of a substring of a photovoltaic device to a positive terminal of a photovoltaic cell of another substring of the photovoltaic device to electrically connect the cells together. Certain interconnect...