ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,295, issued on April 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Solar cell, method for manufacturing solar cell, and photovoltaic module" was invented by Bike Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Jingsheng Jin (Zhejiang, China), Guangming Liao (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell, a manufacturing method thereof, and a photovoltaic module are provided. The solar cell includes a substrate having electrode regions and non-electrode regions that are alternatingly arranged in a first direction, where the non-electrode regions ...