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David D. Smith — 13 Patents in 2016

SUSunpower: 13 patents #1 of 138Top 1%
Campbell, CA: #11 of 423 inventorsTop 3%
California: #604 of 57,791 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (2016): #3,916 of 481,213Top 1%
13 Patents 2016

Issued Patents 2016

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9520507 Solar cells with improved lifetime, passivation and/or efficiency Tim Dennis, Russelle De Jesus Tabajonda 2016-12-13 $7,570,000
9502601 Metallization of solar cells with differentiated P-type and N-type region architectures Timothy Weidman, Scott Harrington, Venkatasubramani Balu 2016-11-22 $4,666,000
9466750 Hybrid polysilicon heterojunction back contact cell Peter John Cousins, Seung Bum Rim 2016-10-11 $3,361,000
9437763 Trench process and structure for backside contact solar cells with polysilicon doped regions 2016-09-06 $3,891,000
9406821 Method of fabricating a back-contact solar cell and device thereof Bo Li, Peter John Cousins 2016-08-02 $24,348,000
9401450 Solar cell emitter region fabrication using ion implantation Timothy Weidman 2016-07-26 $12,712,000
9337369 Solar cells with tunnel dielectrics 2016-05-10 $26,203,000
9263625 Solar cell emitter region fabrication using ion implantation Timothy Weidman, Staffan Westerberg 2016-02-16 $5,663,000
9263602 Laser processing of solar cells with anti-reflective coating Gabriel Harley, Tim Dennis, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim, Peter John Cousins 2016-02-16 $5,663,000
9263601 Enhanced adhesion of seed layer for solar cell conductive contact Junbo Wu, Michael C. Johnson, Michael Cudzinovic, Joseph Behnke, Xi Zhu +3 more 2016-02-16 $5,663,000
9252319 Solar cell emitter region fabrication using silicon nano-particles Paul Loscutoff, Michael Morse, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim, Steven Molesa 2016-02-02 $7,859,000
9231129 Foil-based metallization of solar cells Gabriel Harley, Taeseok Kim, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Michael Morse, Matthieu Moors +1 more 2016-01-05 $20,587,000
9231145 Trench process and structure for backside contact solar cells with polysilicon doped regions 2016-01-05 $20,587,000