US Patent Issued to NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS on March 18 for "Outdoor photoluminescence imaging of photovoltaic modules" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,582, issued on March 18, was assigned to NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS PTY Ltd. (Sydney).

"Outdoor photoluminescence imaging of photovoltaic modules" was invented by Oliver Kunz (Sydney), Germaine Antoine Rey (Sydney), Thorsten Trupke (Sydney) and Appu Rshikesan Paduthol (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are presented for measuring a photoluminescence (PL) response, preferably a spatially resolved image of a PL response, from an object exposed to solar irradiation. In certain embodiments signals from the object are measured in two or more different spectral bands selected such that one of the measured signals has a...