US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW, Universiteit Hasselt on Sept. 16 for "Method for interconnecting photovoltaic cells and photovoltaic cell assembly" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,132, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium) and Universiteit Hasselt (Hasselt, Belgium).

"Method for interconnecting photovoltaic cells and photovoltaic cell assembly" was invented by Marc Meuris (Keerbergen, Belgium) and Tom Borgers (Liege, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure related to a method for interconnecting photovoltaic cells in order to form a photovoltaic cells assembly is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing a first photovoltaic cell comprising a first surface, a second surface, a first edge, and a second edge, arranging a conductive wire on the first sur...