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Michael C. Johnson — 49 Patents

LRLocus Robotics: 19 patents #2 of 34Top 6%
SUSunpower: 16 patents #36 of 453Top 8%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 3 patents #31 of 129Top 25%
TSTotal Marketing Services: 2 patents #76 of 293Top 30%
GE: 1 patents #19,940 of 36,430Top 55%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
BUBrigham Young University: 1 patents #220 of 611Top 40%
Alameda, CA: #19 of 1,067 inventorsTop 2%
California: #8,285 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #55,592 of 4,157,543Top 2%
49 Patents All Time
Michael C. Johnson has been granted 49 US patents while listed as an inventor at Locus Robotics. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in April 2025. Michael C. Johnson ranks #55,592 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list Michael C. Johnson in Alameda, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 49 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12272757 UV-curing of light receiving surfaces of solar cells Yu-Chen Shen, Perine Jaffrenou, Gilles Olav Tanguy Sylvain Poulain, Seung Bum Rim 2025-04-08
12083681 Robot congestion management Luis Jaquez, Sean Johnson, Andrew Alcutt 2024-09-10
12009441 Solar cells with differentiated p-type and n-type region architectures Seung Bum Rim 2024-06-11
12009449 Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, David D. Smith, Yu-Chen Shen, Peter John Cousins +1 more 2024-06-11
D1006849 Mobile robot base with shelves and without mast William Richardson Jones, III, Colin Alexander Davis, John Stephen Lanier, Seth Allen, Michael Sussman +4 more 2023-12-05
D1006846 Mobile robot base William Richardson Jones, III, Colin Alexander Davis, John Stephen Lanier, Seth Allen, Michael Sussman +4 more 2023-12-05
D1006847 Mobile robot base with mast William Richardson Jones, III, Colin Alexander Davis, John Stephen Lanier, Seth Allen, Michael Sussman +7 more 2023-12-05
D1006848 Mobile robot base with mast and shelves William Richardson Jones, III, Colin Alexander Davis, John Stephen Lanier, Seth Allen, Michael Sussman +8 more 2023-12-05
11741564 Sequence adjustment for executing functions on hems in an order Sean Johnson, Rick Faulk 2023-08-29
11724883 Presort system for executing robot-assisted putaway tasks Sean Johnson, Luis Jaquez 2023-08-15
11724395 Robot congestion management Luis Jaquez, Sean Johnson, Andrew Alcutt 2023-08-15
11605750 Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, David D. Smith, Yu-Chen Shen, Peter John Cousins +1 more 2023-03-14 $34,238,000
11594648 Solar cells with differentiated P-type and N-type region architectures Seung Bum Rim 2023-02-28 $20,091,000
11479414 Dynamic item putaway management using mobile robots Sean Johnson, Luis Jaquez 2022-10-25
11374145 UV-curing of light-receiving surfaces of solar cells Yu-Chen Shen, Périne Jaffrennou, Gilles Olav Tanguy Sylvain Poulain, Seung Bum Rim 2022-06-28 $22,202,000
11256259 Zone engine for providing context-augmented map layer Matthew Whitaker, Bradley Powers, Sean Johnson, Thomas Moore 2022-02-22
11213950 Proximate robot object detection and avoidance Sean Johnson, Luis Jaquez, Bruce Welty 2022-01-04
11078019 Tote induction in warehouse order fulfillment operations Bruce Welty, Sean Johnson, Luis Jaquez 2021-08-03
11034027 Robot assisted personnel routing Luis Jaquez, Sean Johnson 2021-06-15
11000953 Robot gamification for improvement of operator performance Sean Johnson, Luis Jaquez, Bruce Welty, Karen Leavitt 2021-05-11
10994933 Optimized tote recommendation process in warehouse order fulfillment operations Sean Johnson, Luis Jaquez, Bruce Welty 2021-05-04
10957809 Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, David D. Smith, Yu-Chen Shen, Peter John Cousins +1 more 2021-03-23 $59,432,000
10913604 System and method for queuing robots destined for one or more processing stations Kaitlin Margaret Gallagher, Sean Johnson, Luis Jaquez 2021-02-09
10840395 Deposition approaches for emitter layers of solar cells Taiqing Qiu, David D. Smith, Peter John Cousins, Staffan Westerberg 2020-11-17 $32,547,000
10804843 Photonic degradation monitoring for semiconductor devices Xiuwen Tu, David Aitan Soltz, Seung Bum Rim, Taiqing Qiu, Yu-Chen Shen +1 more 2020-10-13 $10,507,000