ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,657, issued on June 24, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Solar cell, method for preparing the same, and photovoltaic module" was invented by Zhao Wang (Zhejiang, China), Jie Mao (Zhejiang, China), Jingming Zheng (Zhejiang, China), Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Peiting Zheng (Zhejiang, China) and Jie Yang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a solar cell, a method for preparing a photovoltaic module, and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes: a substrate, a first dielectric layer and a first doped conductive layer. The substrat...