ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,767, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HELIATEK GMBH (Dresden, Germany).
"Field-width adjustment of cells in a photovoltaic element" was invented by Martin Pfeiffer-Jacob (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic element including a number n of cells arranged on a substrate, from a first cell to an n-th cell and at least one busbar connected to the first cell and/or the n-th cell by an electrically conductive contacting. The cells each have a bottom electrode, a top electrode and a layer system including at least one photoactive layer. The layer system is arranged between the bottom electrode and the top electrod...