US Patent Issued to Maxeon Solar on Feb. 18 for "Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,724, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts" was invented by David D. Smith (Campbell, Calif.), Jeffrey El Cotter (San Jose, Calif.), David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse (Oakland, Calif.) and Taeseok Kim (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell, and methods of fabricating said solar cell, are disclosed. The solar cell can include a first emitter region over a substrate, the first emitter region having a perimeter around a portion of the substrate. A first conductive contact...