ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,360, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ZEON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion element module and method of producing same" was invented by Ryoichi Komiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion element module (1) includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (15) formed on a light-transmitting base plate (3). The photoelectric conversion elements (15) each include a transparent conductive film (4), a first charge transport layer (5), a power-generating layer (6), and a second charge transport layer (7) stacked in order from a side corresponding to the light-transmitting base plate (3). The...