ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,640, issued on April 22, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Bypass diode assemblies for a solar cell array" was invented by Charles Hyunsang Suh (La Palma, Calif.) and Dante Michael Caruso (El Segundo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bypass diode assembly includes a plurality of diodes and a plurality of interconnects coupled to the plurality of diodes. Functionality of the plurality of diodes to prevent current limiting of a solar cell string that the bypass diode assembly is coupled to is not dependent on back metal of solar cells of the solar cell string. Each interconnect includes one or more relief feat...