ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,352, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. Ltd. (Xi'an, China).

"Back contact solar cell and manufacturing method therefor, and photovoltaic module" was invented by Shenghou Zhou (Xi'an, China), Xiyan Tang (Xi'an, China), Zhaoqing Sun (Xi'an, China), Xiaoyu Deng (Xi'an, China), Liang Fang (Xi'an, China), Feng Ye (Xi'an, China) and Xixiang Xu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a back contact solar cell and a manufacturing method therefor, and a photovoltaic module, In one example, a back contact solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate, a transparent conduct...