ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,969, issued on June 10, was assigned to Jinko Green Energy (Shanghai) Management Co. LTD. (Shanghai) and Zhejiang Jinko Solar Co. Ltd. (Haining, China).

"Solar cell and solar cell module" was invented by Menglei Xu (Shanghai), Jie Yang (Shanghai), Xinyu Zhang (Shanghai) and Hao Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solar cell and a solar cell module. The solar cell includes a first region and a second region, and further includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a tunneling layer covering the second surface; a first emitter formed on part of the tunneling ...