ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,588, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SolAero Technologies Corp. (Albuquerque, N.M.).
"Multijunction solar cell" was invented by John Hart (Albuquerque, N.M.), Daniel Derkacs (Albuquerque, N.M.), Zachary Bittner (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Andrew Espenlaub (Albuquerque, N.M.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multijunction solar cell including an upper first solar subcell having an emitter and base layers forming a photoelectric junction; a second solar subcell disposed under and adjacent to the upper first solar subcell, and having an emitter and base layers forming a photoelectric junction; and a third solar subcell disposed under and ...