US Patent Issued to SOLARPAINT on Sept. 16 for "Israel hybrid photovoltaic device having rigid planar segments and flexible non-planar segments" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,117, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SOLARPAINT LTD. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

"Israel hybrid photovoltaic device having rigid planar segments and flexible non-planar segments" was invented by Eran Maimon (Kibbutz Nahsholim, Israel), Ramon Joseph Albalak (Haifa, Israel) and Oded Rozenberg (Kibbutz Nahsholim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid photovoltaic (PV) device includes: a rigid PV segment, having one or more PV cells that convert light to electricity, wherein the rigid PV segment is non-foldable and non-bendable; and a co-located flexible PV segment, wherein the flexible PV segment is foldable or bendable witho...