ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,759, issued on April 8, was assigned to JINKO SOLAR (HAINING) Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Photovoltaic module" was invented by Hao Jin (Jiaxing, China), Shiliang Huang (Jiaxing, China), Zhiqiu Guo (Jiaxing, China), Yingli Guan (Jiaxing, China) and Jingguo Yang (Jiaxing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The photovoltaic module includes at least one cell unit group, where the cell unit group includes multiple cell strings, and adjacent cell strings are connected by a connection structure. The connection structure includes a lead-out structure, which includes a main body portion, ...