US Patent Issued to Maxeon Solar on Sept. 2 for "Foil-based metallization of solar cells" (Belgian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,476, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Maxeon Solar Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Foil-based metallization of solar cells" was invented by Gabriel Harley (Mountain View, Calif.), Taeseok Kim (Pleasanton, Calif.), Richard Hamilton Sewell (Los Altos, Calif.), Michael Morse (San Jose, Calif.), David D. Smith (Campbell, Calif.), Matthieu Moors (Braine-le-Chateau, France) and Jens-Dirk Moschner (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for the foil-based metallization of solar cells and the resulting solar cells are described. In an example, a solar cell includes a substrate. A plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semi...