ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,301, issued on April 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Photovoltaic cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Jingsheng Jin (Zhejiang, China), Nannan Yang (Zhejiang, China), Lin'an Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Guangming Liao (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic cell is provided, which includes: a substrate; a tunnel oxide layer and a doping conductive layer sequentially disposed on a first surface of the substrate in a direction away from the substrate, wherein the tunnel oxide layer includes nitrog...