ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,296, issued on April 15, was assigned to ZHEJIANG JINKO SOLAR Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Method for manufacturing back-contact solar cell and back-contact solar cell" was invented by Xiu Feng (Zhejiang, China), Menglei Xu (Zhejiang, China), Jie Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Xinyu Zhang (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a back-contact solar cell and a back-contact solar cell are provided. The method includes the following. A substrate having a first surface is provided, where the first surface includes first regions and second regions that are alternatingly arranged in a preset direction. First d...