ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,561, issued on March 25, was assigned to JINKO SOLAR (HAINING) Co. LTD. (Haining Zhejiang, China) and ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining Zhejiang, China).

"Photovoltaic module and method for preparing the photovoltaic module" was invented by Zhiqiu Guo (Jiaxing, China), Shiliang Huang (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 string, including multiple solar cell sheets, and adjacent solar cell sheets in the multiple solar cell sheets are connected to each other by multiple welding strips. In some embodiments, ...