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Rick C. Powell — 28 Patents

FSFirst Solar: 28 patents #1 of 324Top 1%
Ann Arbor, MI: #252 of 6,071 inventorsTop 5%
Michigan: #2,413 of 86,293 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
Rick C. Powell has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at First Solar. The first was granted in 2012 and the most recent in October 2024. Rick C. Powell ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list Rick C. Powell in Ann Arbor, MI, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12112897 Methods for perovskite device processing by vapor transport deposition Le Chen, David Losan Ho, Xiaoping Li, Tze-bin Song, Vera Steinmann +4 more 2024-10-08 $258,016,000
12021163 Photovoltaic devices and methods of forming the same Jongwoo Choi 2024-06-25 $284,786,000
11843070 Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Roger T. Green, Akhlesh Gupta, Upali Jayamaha +1 more 2023-12-12 $195,861,000
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
11769844 Photovoltaic device including a p-n junction and method of manufacturing Dan Damjanovic, Feng Liao, Rui Shao, Jigish Trivedi, Zhibo Zhao 2023-09-26 $209,821,000
10861994 Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Roger T. Green, Akhlesh Gupta, Upali Jayamaha +1 more 2020-12-08 $115,017,000
10749068 Vapor transport deposition method and system for material co-deposition John Barden 2020-08-18 $83,741,000
10570516 System and method for transport 2020-02-25 $38,406,000
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
10319873 Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films Upali Jayamaha, Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Akhlesh Gupta, Roger T. Green +1 more 2019-06-11 $46,347,000
10243092 Photovoltaic device including a p-n junction and method of manufacturing Dan Damjanovic, Feng Liao, Rui Shao, Jigish Trivedi, Zhibo Zhao 2019-03-26 $43,919,000
10147838 Vapor transport deposition method and system for material co-deposition John Barden 2018-12-04 $40,676,000
9799784 High efficiency photovoltaic device employing cadmium sulfide telluride and method of manufacture Arnold Allenic, Zhigang Ban, Benyamin Buller, Markus Gloeckler, Benjamin Milliron +5 more 2017-10-24 $51,979,000
9698285 Photovoltaic device including a P-N junction and method of manufacturing Dan Damjanovic, Feng Liao, Rui Shao, Jigish Trivedi, Zhibo Zhao 2017-07-04
9490120 Vapor transport deposition method and system for material co-deposition John Barden 2016-11-08 $15,870,000
9437760 Method of reducing semiconductor window layer loss during thin film photovoltaic device fabrication, and resulting device structure Daniel Damjanovic, Jigish Trivedi, Zhibo Zhao 2016-09-06 $37,520,000
9406829 Method of manufacturing a photovoltaic device Pratima Addepalli, Benyamin Buller, Markus Gloeckler, Akhlesh Gupta, David Hwang +6 more 2016-08-02 $43,128,000
9359668 Feeder system and method for a vapor transport deposition system Gang Xiong, Feng Liao 2016-06-07 $50,234,000
9337376 Method and apparatus providing multi-step deposition of thin film layer Arnold Allenic, Zhigang Ban, John Barden, Benjamin Milliron 2016-05-10 $24,475,000
9328408 System and method for depositing a material on a substrate 2016-05-03 $10,566,000
9276154 Photovoltaic device with protective layer over a window layer and method of manufacture of the same Daniel Damjanovic, Jing Guo, Sreenivas Jayaraman, Oleh Karpenko, Feng Liao +3 more 2016-03-01 $16,111,000
9263608 Photovoltaic devices including doped semiconductor films Upali Jayamaha, Anke Abken, Markus Gloeckler, Akhlesh Gupta, Roger T. Green +1 more 2016-02-16 $59,926,000
9147792 Method of providing chloride treatment for a photovoltaic device and a chloride treated photovoltaic device Scott Christensen, Gang Xiong 2015-09-29 $10,008,000
9006020 Method and system of providing dopant concentration control in different layers of a semiconductor device Gang Xiong, Xilin Peng, John Barden, Arnold Allenic, Feng Liao +1 more 2015-04-14 $52,809,000