US Patent Issued to Tandem PV on June 17 for "Photovoltaic cells with bypass diodes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,305, issued on June 17, was assigned to Tandem PV.

"Photovoltaic cells with bypass diodes" was invented by Colin David Bailie (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Chris Eberspacher (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure include a photovoltaic device comprising a plurality of photovoltaic cells coupled in series. The photovoltaic cells comprising a first contact layer, a first charge transport layer (CTL) disposed over the first contact layer, an absorber layer disposed over the first CTL, a second CTL disposed over the absorber layer; and a second contact layer disposed over the second CTL. Each photovol...