US Patent Issued to HELIATEK on June 24 for "Photovoltaic element with improved efficiency in the event of shade, and method for producing such a photovoltaic element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,631, issued on June 24, was assigned to HELIATEK GMBH (Dresden, Germany).

"Photovoltaic element with improved efficiency in the event of shade, and method for producing such a photovoltaic element" was invented by Martin Hermenau (Dresden, Germany), Jan Birnstock (Dresden, Germany) and Mickael Lapeyrade (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic element including at least one photovoltaic cell at least partially segmented and having a base electrode, a top electrode, and a layer system comprising at least one photoactive layer, wherein the layer system is arranged between the base electrode and the top electrode,...