US Patent Issued to Trina Solar on Oct. 7 for "Solar cells" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,730, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Trina Solar Co. Ltd (Changzhou, China).

"Solar cells" was invented by Guangtao Yang (Changzhou, China), Daming Chen (Changzhou, China) and Yifeng Chen (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell comprises a substrate having an opposite first surface and a second surface, and the second surface has a first regions and a second regions adjacent in the first direction; a first passivation layer located on the first surface; a first doped layer and a tunnel oxide layer sequentially stacked in the first region; a first insulating layer located on a surface of the first doped layer aw...