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Benjamin Milliron — 8 Patents

FSFirst Solar: 8 patents #31 of 324Top 10%
Toledo, OH: #171 of 1,470 inventorsTop 15%
Ohio: #10,270 of 73,341 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Benjamin Milliron has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at First Solar. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in March 2024. Benjamin Milliron ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Benjamin Milliron in Toledo, OH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2014.peak 12014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11929447 Annealing materials and methods for annealing photovoltaic devices with annealing materials Joshua Brubaker, Joan M. King, Jay Norman, Jason M. Robinson, John Tumbush 2024-03-12 $176,909,000
11817516 Photovoltaic devices and method of manufacturing Dan Damjanovic, Markus Gloeckler, Feng Liao, Andrei Los, Dan Mao +6 more 2023-11-14 $192,382,000
10529883 Photovoltaic devices and method of manufacturing Dan Damjanovic, Markus Gloeckler, Feng Liao, Andrei Los, Dan Mao +6 more 2020-01-07 $41,667,000
10461207 Photovoltaic devices and method of manufacturing Dan Damjanovic, Markus Gloeckler, Feng Liao, Andrei Los, Dan Mao +6 more 2019-10-29 $41,519,000
9799784 High efficiency photovoltaic device employing cadmium sulfide telluride and method of manufacture Arnold Allenic, Zhigang Ban, Benyamin Buller, Markus Gloeckler, Xilin Peng +5 more 2017-10-24 $51,979,000
9337376 Method and apparatus providing multi-step deposition of thin film layer Arnold Allenic, Zhigang Ban, John Barden, Rick C. Powell 2016-05-10 $24,475,000
9151597 In situ substrate detection for a processing system using infrared detection Dale Roberts, David Berger, William Logan 2015-10-06 $24,836,000
8921147 Method and apparatus providing multi-step deposition of thin film layer Arnold Allenic, Zhigang Ban, John Barden, Rick C. Powell 2014-12-30 $47,036,000