ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,577, issued on March 18, was assigned to KANEKA Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Solar cell" was invented by Masanori Fukuda (Toyooka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solar cell including: a semiconductor substrate having a substantially rectangular shape; and collector electrodes. The semiconductor substrate is sectioned into first, second, third, and fourth large sections by a first large sectioning line passing a center of a first side of the semiconductor substrate and substantially parallel to a second side of the semiconductor substrate and a second large sectioning line passing through a center of the second side of ...