ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,229, issued on March 25, was assigned to JINKO SOLAR (HAINING) Co. LTD. (Haining, China).
"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Wusong Tao (Haining, China), Niannian Qin (Haining, China) and Luchuang Wang (Haining, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solar cell, a method for manufacturing a solar cell, and a photovoltaic module. A plurality of first pad groups and at least one second pad group are arranged along a first direction on a back surface of the solar cell. The second pad group is distributed in a region of the solar cell adjacent to a cut edge or a non-cut edge of the solar cell. The first pa...