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Brian Wares — 52 Patents

SUSunpower: 48 patents #4 of 453Top 1%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 2 patents #39 of 129Top 35%
TOTotalenergies Onetech: 1 patents #63 of 208Top 35%
UNUnirac: 1 patents #41 of 58Top 75%
Sacramento, CA: #11 of 1,687 inventorsTop 1%
California: #7,530 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
Brian Wares has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in July 2025. Brian Wares ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Brian Wares in Sacramento, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12343851 Universal end clamp Ethan Ely 2025-07-01
12255577 Photovoltaic module mount Vicent Ripoll Agullo, Tyler Grushkowitz 2025-03-18
12119779 Photovoltaic module mounting assembly Ethan Ely, Sushrut Bapat, Gary Rossi 2024-10-15
D1046761 Photovoltaic panel system David Okawa, Tamir Lance 2024-10-15
12034398 Junction box for a photovoltaic module mounting assembly Ethan Ely, Sushrut Bapat, Gary Rossi 2024-07-09 $11,993,000
12003208 Multi-drive solar-tracking photovoltaic system Sushrut Bapat, Tyler Grushkowitz, Nicholas James McKibben 2024-06-04 $5,449,000
D1016736 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, David Okawa, Ryan Reagan, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2024-03-05
11495698 Reconfigurable photovoltaic laminate(s) and photovoltaic panel(s) Zachary S. Judkins, David Okawa, Tamir Lance, Patrick L. Chapman 2022-11-08 $60,233,000
11424714 Angled polymer solar modules David Okawa, Tamir Lance, Gabriela Bunea, Zachary S. Judkins 2022-08-23 $34,173,000
D953972 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, David Okawa, Ryan Reagan, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2022-06-07
D928079 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, David Okawa, Ryan Reagan, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2021-08-17
D921573 Photovoltaic panel system David Okawa, Tamir Lance 2021-06-08
11005416 Photovoltaic panel David Okawa, Tamir Lance 2021-05-11 $38,328,000
10958208 Photovoltaic module mounting assembly having a pin constraint Jason Oh, Nicholas James McKibben 2021-03-23 $59,432,000
10917040 Photovoltaic module mount Vicent Ripoll Agullo, Tyler Grushkowitz 2021-02-09 $177,065,000
D904289 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, David Okawa, Ryan Reagan, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2020-12-08
10804837 Sun tracking solar energy collection system and method of assembly 2020-10-13 $10,507,000
10630232 Photovoltaic module clip Elizabeth Schulte, Nicholas James McKibben 2020-04-21 $6,858,000
D879031 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, David Okawa, Ryan Reagan, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2020-03-24
10581372 Photovoltaic panel David Okawa, Tamir Lance 2020-03-03 $25,582,000
10469025 Solar-tracking system drive having an offset gear Tyler Grushkowitz, Mark Adam Schimelpfenig, Jason C. Jones 2019-11-05 $9,063,000
10333458 Multi-drive solar-tracking photovoltaic system Tyler Grushkowitz, Zachary Z. Judkins, Mark Adam Schimelpfenig, Richard ERB, Nicholas James McKibben 2019-06-25 $9,333,000
10333459 Photovoltaic module mounting assembly having a pin constraint Jason Oh, Nicholas James McKibben 2019-06-25 $9,333,000
10320326 Photovoltaic system bearing assembly Mark Adam Schimelpfenig, Tyler Grushkowitz 2019-06-11 $13,626,000
10305418 Torque tube coupler Sushrut Bapat, Tyler Grushkowitz, Nicholas James McKibben 2019-05-28 $6,542,000