ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,728, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Haining, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Solar cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Ding Yu (Haining, China), Zhao Wang (Haining, China), Jie Yang (Haining, China), Wenqi Li (Haining, China), Jiahao Wu (Haining, China), Hao Wang (Haining, China), Jialei Chai (Haining, China), Xiaowen Zhang (Haining, China) and Shijie Zhao (Haining, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell, including a crystalline silicon substrate; a first passivation contact step provided on a surface of the crystalline silicon substrate; a second passivation co...