ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,130, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Method for improving alignment between selective emitter and metal printing" was invented by Zhiliang Fei (Zhejiang, China), Ning Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Yankai Qiu (Zhejiang, China) and Fangyan Luo (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving alignment between a selective emitters and metal printing, including: providing silicon wafer including first edge and midline parallel to the first edge; texturing and diffusing surface of the silicon wafer; and illuminating the surfac...