ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,269, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Translucent photovoltaic device, translucent photovoltaic product and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Sandeep Unnikrishnan (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Yulia Galagan (Taipei, Taiwan), Henri Fledderus (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Hieronymus Antonius Josephus Maria Andriessen (Beerse, Belgium) and Herbert Lifka (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Translucent photovoltaic product, method of manufacturing the same and manufacturing apparatus. The method comprises...