ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,879, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO (s'-Gravenhage, Netherlands).
"Method for creating shunt free translucent flexible thin-film photovoltaic module" was invented by Johan Bosman (Petten, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for shaping a thin-film photovoltaic cell module from a photovoltaic cell sheet according to a predetermined contour of the module, where the cell sheet includes a flexible substrate based on a polymer or metal foil and a photovoltaic stack including one or more photo-active layers arranged on a front surface of the subst...