US Patent Issued to HANWHA Q CELLS on March 25 for "Solar cell module and method for operating a solar cell module" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,234, issued on March 25, was assigned to HANWHA Q CELLS GMBH (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany).

"Solar cell module and method for operating a solar cell module" was invented by Max Kontopp (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany), Uwe Weigelt (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany), Thoralf Harder (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany) and Carsten Baer (Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell module and a method for operating a solar cell module. The solar cell module includes a plurality of strings which are each formed from a plurality of solar cells connected to one another in a series circuit, wherein each string is connected to a bypa...