ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,647, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China) and JINKO SOLAR.Co. LTD (Jiangxi, China).

"Photovoltaic cell and photovoltaic module" was invented by Zhiqiu Guo (Zhejiang, China), Jingguo Yang (Zhejiang, China), Liqin Liu (Zhejiang, China), Yingli Guan (Zhejiang, China) and Shiliang Huang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photovoltaic cell and a photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic cell includes a semiconductor substrate, a passivation layer arranged on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a plurality busbars, and a plurality of electrode pads arranged on the passivation la...