US Patent Issued to MAXEON SOLAR on April 22 for "Protected interconnects for low stress solar cell shingling and improved aesthetics" (American, Chinese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,641, issued on April 22, was assigned to MAXEON SOLAR PTE. LTD (Singapore).

"Protected interconnects for low stress solar cell shingling and improved aesthetics" was invented by Nicholas Eli Berry (Beaverton, Ore.), Mingchong Dai (Yantai, China), Jianfang Si (Kunshan, China), Zhaoji Li (Fremont, Calif.), Yu-Chou Shih (Union City, Calif.), Edwin Alexander Peraza Hernandez (San Jose, Calif.), Yafu Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Hongshuai Xu (Singapore) and Jialin Shen (Bozhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A string of shingled solar cells is disclosed. The string of shingled solar cells has flexible joints connecting the solar cells mad...