ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,952, issued on June 10, was assigned to TONGWEI SOLAR (HEFEI) Co. LTD. (China).

"Large cell sheets, solar cells, shingled solar module, and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Bingwei Yin (Hefei, China), Jun Sun (Hefei, China), Dengyun Chen (Hefei, China), Yan Li (Hefei, China) and Gang Shi (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to large cell sheets, solar cells, shingled solar modules, and manufacturing method thereof. A top surface of a boundary portion of units of the large cell sheet is divided into a cutting area, top surface bonding areas and top surface electrically-conductive con...