ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,444, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAULE S.A. (Warsaw, Poland).
"Photovoltaic device and a method for preparation thereof" was invented by Vivek Babu (Wroclaw, Poland) and David Forgacs (Wroclaw, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic device includes a semi-transparent substrate and at least one translucent photovoltaic cell. The photovoltaic cell includes a stack of layers disposed on the substrate, wherein the stack has apertures extending through it at least partially, contain a functionalizing agent and are uniformly distributed within the photovoltaic cell."
The patent was filed on Aug. 23, 2020, under Applic...