ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,848, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TIANJIN SANAN OPTOELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Solar cell device and method for producing the same" was invented by Minghui Song (Tianjin, China), Lingling Tao (Tianjin, China), Xuemin Sun (Tianjin, China), Tian Chen (Tianjin, China), Chengtai Wei (Tianjin, China), Xiufeng Xin (Tianjin, China) and Wenjun Chen (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell device includes a supporting substrate, and an epitaxial active structure that is disposed on the supporting substrate. The epitaxial active structure has a bottom surface adjacent to the supporting substrate and a top su...