ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,416, issued on July 29, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Method for manufacturing solar cell" was invented by Masanori Kanematsu (Settsu, Japan) and Katsunori Konishi (Settsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a solar cell which simplifies the formation of a transparent electrode layer. The method includes forming conductive semiconductor layers on the back surface side of a substrate, forming a transparent conductive film on the conductive semiconductor layers, forming an uncured film of a metal electrode layer on the conductive semiconductor layers, patterning the transparent conductive fi...