ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,643, issued on April 22, was assigned to JINKO GREEN ENERGY (SHANGHAI) MANAGEMENT Co. LTD (Shanghai) and ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD (Zhejiang, China).

"Photovoltaic module, solar cell, and method for producing solar cell" was invented by Jie Yang (Shanghai), Wenqi Li (Shanghai), Xueting Yuan (Shanghai), Xinyu Zhang (Shanghai) and Hao Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solar cell. The solar cell may include a semiconductor layer and a passivation film stack provided on a back surface of the semiconductor layer. The passivation film stack may include a first passivation layer provided on the back surface of the...