ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,950, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SOLARLAB AIKO EUROPE GMBH (Freiburg, Germany).

"Passivated contact structure and solar cell comprising the same, cell assembly, and photovoltaic system" was invented by Gang Chen (Yiwu, China), Wenli Xu (Yiwu, China), Kaifu Qiu (Yiwu, China), Yongqian Wang (Yiwu, China) and Xinqiang Yang (Yiwu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a solar cell and a back contact structure thereof, a photovoltaic module, and a photovoltaic system. The back contact structure includes a first doped region having an opposite polarity to a silicon substrate and a second doped region having a ...