ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,329, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).
"Photovoltaic module frontsheet and backsheet" was invented by Alexander Sharenko (Berkeley, Calif.), Paul Martin Adriani (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ryan Lemon Devine (Richmond, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic module includes at least one solar cell, an encapsulant encapsulating the at least one solar cell, a frontsheet juxtaposed with the encapsulant, and backsheet juxtaposed with the encapsulant. The frontsheet includes a glass layer, a polymer layer attached to the glass layer, and an adhesive layer attaching the polymer layer to the glass...