ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,054, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOLD STONE (FUJIAN) ENERGY COMPANY Ltd. (Quanzhou, China).

"Back-contact battery and manufacturing method thereof, and photovoltaic module" was invented by Kairui Lin (Fujian, China) and Chaohua Zhang (Fujian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a back-contact battery and a manufacturing method thereof, and a photovoltaic module, which includes a silicon substrate with a front surface and a back surface; a first semiconductor layer with a second semiconductor opening region arranged back surface; and a second semiconductor layer. The back-contact battery further includes multiple ...