ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,407, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Swiss Solar Space SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"Light-conversion layer and photovoltaic system" was invented by Nasser Hefiana (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic system comprises a photovoltaic cell, a substrate, and a light-conversion layer. The photovoltaic cell converts incident light into electricity and is responsive to a range of frequencies of incident light that is less than all frequencies of the incident light. The substrate is disposed between the photovoltaic cell and the incident light so that the incident light passes through the substrate to illum...