ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,654, issued on June 24, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Method for preparing solar cell, and solar cell" was invented by Wenqi Li (Zhejiang, China), Shijie Zhao (Zhejiang, China), Xiaowen Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Jie Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for preparing a solar cell includes providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; forming a doped layer and a first passivation layer stacked sequentially in a direction away from the substrate on th...