US Patent Issued to Maxeon Solar on Nov. 25 for "Wire-based metallization and stringing for solar cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,314, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Wire-based metallization and stringing for solar cells" was invented by Richard Hamilton Sewell (Los Altos, Calif.), Matthieu Minault Reich (San Jose, Calif.), Andrea R. Bowring (Mountain View, Calif.), Arbaz Shakir (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ryan Reagan (Hayward, Calif.) and Matthew Matsumoto (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wire-based metallization and stringing techniques for solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, modules, and equipment, are described. In an example, a string of solar cells includes a plurality of back-contact solar cells...