ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,723, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to M10 Solar Equipment GmbH (Freiburg, Germany).
"Process and apparatus for manufacturing solar panels" was invented by Philipp Donatus Martin Zahn (Freiburg, Germany), Gunter Schneidereit (Freiburg, Germany) and Dominique Jehl (Rhinau, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improvements in the technical field of solar panel (2) manufacturing are provided. To this effect, a process for manufacturing solar panels (2) is disclosed in which rows (4) of solar elements (3) are bonded together by an electrically conductive adhesive, with the electrically conductive adhesive being applied to the solar eleme...