David D. Smith — 168 Patents at Sunpower

David D. Smith has been granted 168 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in September 2025. David D. Smith ranks #4,910 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.12%). Patent records list David D. Smith in Campbell, CA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12419116	Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions	—	2025-09-16
12408476	Foil-based metallization of solar cells	Gabriel Harley, Taeseok Kim, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Michael Morse, Matthieu Moors +1 more	2025-09-02
12341630	Communication network gateways and associated methods	Chad Riland, Rob Alderfer, Dennis Alan Brown, Jane Keys, John C. Bahr +6 more	2025-06-24
12230727	Contacts for solar cells	Matthieu Moors, Gabriel Harley, Taeseok Kim	2025-02-18
12230724	Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts	Jeffrey El Cotter, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Taeseok Kim	2025-02-18
12191404	Solar cell having conductive contacts in alignment with recast signatures	Gabriel Harley, Peter John Cousins	2025-01-07
12166137	Aligned metallization for solar cells	Taeseok Kim	2024-12-10
12074240	Backside contact solar cells with separated polysilicon doped regions	—	2024-08-27
12009449	Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material	Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, Michael C. Johnson, Yu-Chen Shen, Peter John Cousins +1 more	2024-06-11
11991523	Using multiple radio streams to thwart man-in-the-middle attacks	John C. Bahr	2024-05-21
11967655	Built-in bypass diode	Seung Bum Rim	2024-04-23
11967657	Foil-based metallization of solar cells	Gabriel Harley, Taeseok Kim, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Michael Morse, Matthieu Moors +1 more	2024-04-23
11963075	Mesh wireless access points	John C. Bahr	2024-04-16
11942565	Solar cell emitter region fabrication using substrate-level ion implantation	Staffan Westerberg, Timothy Weidman	2024-03-26
11935972	Tri-layer semiconductor stacks for patterning features on solar cells	Kieran Mark Tracy, Venkatasubramani Balu, Asnat Masad, Ann Waldhauer	2024-03-19
11909512	Methods of injection locking for multiple optical source generation	Zhensheng Jia, Junwen Zhang, Luis Alberto Campos, Curtis Dean Knittle	2024-02-20
11876645	Communication network gateways and associated methods	Chad Riland, Rob Alderfer, Dennis Alan Brown, Jane Keys, John C. Bahr +6 more	2024-01-16
11876663	Systems and methods for a universal data link	Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary	2024-01-16
11871230	Systems and methods for coordinated security enhancement	—	2024-01-09
11855829	Systems and methods for a universal data link	Luis Alberto Campos, Jennifer Andreoli-Fang, Judson D. Cary	2023-12-26
11824126	Aligned metallization for solar cells	Taeseok Kim	2023-11-21	$2,736,000
11735678	Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts	Jeffrey El Cotter, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Taeseok Kim	2023-08-22	$15,746,000
11711138	Mitigating satellite interference	Thomas H. Williams	2023-07-25
11682744	Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated P-type and N-type regions	—	2023-06-20	$17,055,000
11641287	Local communications network	Joseph Padden, Luther E. Smith, Luis Alberto Campos	2023-05-02

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