ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,478, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Soft spacers for shingled solar cell panels" was invented by Ruihua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Yafu Lin (San Jose, Calif.) and Nicholas Eli Berry (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high efficiency configuration for a solar cell module comprises solar cells arranged in an overlapping shingled manner and conductively bonded to each other in their overlapping regions to form super cells, which may be arranged to efficiently use the area of the solar module. Solar cells are conductive bonded to each other with electrically conductive adhesive contain...