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Daniel A. Inns — 13 Patents

IBM: 7 patents #14,688 of 70,183Top 25%
EAE.I. Du Pont De Nemours And: 3 patents #3,377 of 12,129Top 30%
INInnovalight: 1 patents #23 of 34Top 70%
Palo Alto, CA: #1,842 of 9,675 inventorsTop 20%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Daniel A. Inns has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in August 2019. Daniel A. Inns ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Daniel A. Inns in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 42010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents20122014: 3 patents20142015: 4 patents20152016: 1 patents20162019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10396229 Solar cell with interdigitated back contacts formed from high and low work-function-tuned silicides of the same metal Joel P. de Souza, Harold J. Hovel, Jeehwan Kim, Christian Lavoie, Devendra K. Sadana +3 more 2019-08-27 $1,335,000
9246029 Method for manufacturing an interdigitated back contact solar cell Giuseppe Scardera, Dmitry Poplavskyy, Karim Lotfi Bendimerad, Shannon Dugan 2016-01-26 $28,534,000
9059341 Method for manufacturing an interdigitated back contact solar cell Giuseppe Scardera, Maxim Kelman, Shannon Dugan, Dmitry Poplavskyy, Karim Lotfi Bendimerad 2015-06-16 $50,033,000
9048374 Method for manufacturing an interdigitated back contact solar cell Giuseppe Scardera, Dmitry Poplavskyy, Karim Lotfi Bendimerad, Shannon Dugan 2015-06-02 $60,462,000
8962459 Diffusion sources from liquid precursors 2015-02-24
8933456 Germanium-containing release layer for transfer of a silicon layer to a substrate Stephen W. Bedell, Keith E. Fogel, Jeehwan Kim, Devendra K. Sadana, Katherine L. Saenger 2015-01-13 $4,389,000
8895348 Methods of forming a high efficiency solar cell with a localized back surface field Karim Bendimerad, Dmitry Poplavskyy 2014-11-25
8669169 Diffusion sources from liquid precursors 2014-03-11
8653360 Compositionally-graded band gap heterojunction solar cell Stephen W. Bedell, Harold J. Hovel, Jee H. Kim, Alexander Reznicek, Devendra K. Sadana 2014-02-18 $4,910,000
8298923 Germanium-containing release layer for transfer of a silicon layer to a substrate Stephen W. Bedell, Keith E. Fogel, Jeehwan Kim, Devendra K. Sadana, Katherine L. Saenger 2012-10-30
7935612 Layer transfer using boron-doped SiGe layer Stephen W. Bedell, Keith E. Fogel, Jeehwan Kim, Devendra K. Sadana, James Vichiconti 2011-05-03 $5,933,000
7914619 Thick epitaxial silicon by grain reorientation annealing and applications thereof Joel P. de Souza, Keith E. Fogel, Devendra K. Sadana, Katherine L. Saenger 2011-03-29 $5,031,000
7749869 Crystalline silicon substrates with improved minority carrier lifetime including a method of annealing and removing SiOx precipitates and getterning sites Joel P. de Souza, Harold J. Hovel, Devendra K. Sadana, Ghavam G. Shahidi 2010-07-06 $3,063,000