US Patent Issued to GAF Energy on Sept. 9 for "Photovoltaic modules with offset layers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,385, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GAF Energy LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Photovoltaic modules with offset layers" was invented by William Sirski (San Jose, Calif.), Emma Dohner (San Francisco) and Nicholas Boitnott (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of photovoltaic modules installed on a roof deck. Each of the photovoltaic modules includes solar cells, a first encapsulant encapsulating the solar cells, a frontsheet and a backsheet. The front sheet includes a glass layer. The backsheet includes a first layer and a second layer. Each of the first and second layers includes first, second, thi...