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Robert D. Wieting — 61 Patents

STStion: 56 patents #1 of 25Top 4%
ARAtlantic Richfield: 3 patents #233 of 1,068Top 25%
SGSiemens Solar Gmbh: 1 patents #7 of 24Top 30%
SISiemens Solar Industries: 1 patents #10 of 19Top 55%
SISiemens Solar Industries International: 1 patents #2 of 11Top 20%
Simi Valley, CA: #15 of 1,200 inventorsTop 2%
California: #5,709 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #37,626 of 4,157,543Top 1%
61 Patents All Time
Robert D. Wieting has been granted 61 US patents while listed as an inventor at Stion. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in November 2015. Robert D. Wieting ranks #37,626 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.91%). Patent records list Robert D. Wieting in Simi Valley, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2011.peak 161986: 2 patents19861988: 1 patents19881992: 1 patents19921997: 1 patents19972010: 3 patents20102011: 16 patents20112012: 12 patents20122013: 12 patents20132014: 7 patents20142015: 6 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 61 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9196779 Double sided barrier for encapsulating soda lime glass for CIS/CIGS materials James H. Whittemore, IV, Laila Dounas, Chester A. Farris, III 2015-11-24
9096930 Apparatus for manufacturing thin film photovoltaic devices Kenneth Brian Doering 2015-08-04
9084969 Method and system for recycling processing gas for selenization of thin film photovoltaic materials 2015-07-21
9087955 Humidity control and method for thin film photovoltaic materials 2015-07-21
9068764 Method and apparatus for clamping frameless thin-film solar module Joshua A. Moore, Todd G. Brehmer 2015-06-30
9059370 Zinc oxide film method and structure for CIGS cell 2015-06-16
8906732 Method and device for cadmium-free solar cells Jason Todd Jackson 2014-12-09
8889465 Sodium doped thin film CIGS/CIGSS absorber for high efficiency photovoltaic devices and related methods 2014-11-18
8859880 Method and structure for tiling industrial thin-film solar devices 2014-10-14
8809109 Method and structure for eliminating edge peeling in thin-film photovoltaic absorber materials Laila Dounas, Chester A. Farris, III 2014-08-19
8741689 Thermal pre-treatment process for soda lime glass substrate for thin film photovoltaic materials 2014-06-03
8673675 Humidity control and method for thin film photovoltaic materials 2014-03-18
8628997 Method and device for cadmium-free solar cells Kannan Ramanathan 2014-01-14
8563850 Tandem photovoltaic cell and method using three glass substrate configuration Chester A. Farris, III, Howard W. H. Lee 2013-10-22
8557625 Zinc oxide film method and structure for cigs cell 2013-10-15
8507786 Manufacturing method for patterning CIGS/CIS solar cells 2013-08-13
8461061 Quartz boat method and apparatus for thin film thermal treatment Paul Alexander, Jurg Schmitzberger, Ashish Tandon 2013-06-11
8436445 Method of manufacture of sodium doped CIGS/CIGSS absorber layers for high efficiency photovoltaic devices 2013-05-07
8435822 Patterning electrode materials free from berm structures for thin film photovoltaic cells 2013-05-07
8425739 In chamber sodium doping process and system for large scale cigs based thin film photovoltaic materials 2013-04-23
D679650 Multi-module utility photovoltaic apparatus Chester A. Farris, III 2013-04-09
8398772 Method and structure for processing thin film PV cells with improved temperature uniformity Ashish Tandon, Jurg Schmizberger, Paul Alexander 2013-03-19
8383450 Large scale chemical bath system and method for cadmium sulfide processing of thin film photovoltaic materials 2013-02-26
8377736 System and method for transferring substrates in large scale processing of CIGS and/or CIS devices 2013-02-19
8372684 Method and system for selenization in fabricating CIGS/CIS solar cells Steven Aragon, Chester A. Farris, III 2013-02-12