ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,303, issued on April 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Zhao Wang (Haining, China), Hao Jin (Haining, China), Mengchao Shen (Haining, China), Jiajia Zhu (Haining, China), Jie Yang (Haining, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Haining, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell is provided, including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a first dielectric layer formed on the first surface, a first doped polysilicon layer formed on the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer formed on ...