US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on June 3 for "Polymer based photovoltaic modules with embedded optical sensors" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,099, issued on June 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Polymer based photovoltaic modules with embedded optical sensors" was invented by Issam Gereige (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Anas Bintin (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Konstantinos Kotsovos (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides systems and methods to monitor the degradation of polymer layers in polymer based photovoltaic modules using an optical sensor. The optical sensor is embedded in a polymer layer of the polymer based photovoltaic module."

The patent was filed on March 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/181,908. ...