US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR, JINKO SOLAR on Sept. 16 for "Method for visual inspection of photovoltaic module" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,261, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Jiangxi, China).

"Method for visual inspection of photovoltaic module" was invented by Zhendong Chen (Zhejiang, China), Luchuang Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Wusong Tao (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for visual inspection of a photovoltaic module, including: turning on a first light source located above the photovoltaic module, and recording, by an image collector, first coordinates and second coordinates of edge intersections at ends of the film strips; turning on a second light source located b...