ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,642, issued on May 27, 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 (Zhejiang, China), Jie Yang (Zhejiang, China), Peiting Zheng (Zhejiang, China), Ke Pa (Zhejiang, China), Jinjin Chen (Zhejiang, China) and Lingxin Fang (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a solar cell and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes a substrate, having a first surface, having a metal pattern region and a non-metal pattern region, a first passivation contact structure, located in the metal pattern reg...