ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,271, issued on May 27, was assigned to JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD (Jiangxi, China) and ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Photovoltaic frame, photovoltaic module and method for manufacturing photovoltaic frame" was invented by Xinxin Gong (Jiangxi, China), Zhiqiu Guo (Jiangxi, China), Junhui Liu (Jiangxi, China) and Zehui Zhang (Jiangxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a photovoltaic frame and a photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic frame includes a top support portion, a bottom support portion, a transverse edge portion, a first side edge portion and a second side edge portion. The top support portion, the...