ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,425, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Solaires Entreprises Inc. (Victoria, Canada).

"System to retrofit end-of-life and near end-of-life silicon solar panels" was invented by Mahshid Sam (Victoria, Canada) and Alfonso Fabian De La Fuente Sanchez (Victoria, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic film system is provided for use with a near end-of-life or end-of-life silicon solar panel, the photovoltaic film system comprising a translucent photovoltaic film stack which includes, in order, an outer protective layer, an outer translucent electrode layer, one of an electron transport layer or a hole transport layer, a semi-c...