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David Okawa — 27 Patents

SUSunpower: 16 patents #36 of 453Top 8%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 9 patents #13 of 129Top 15%
University of California: 2 patents #4,561 of 18,278Top 25%
San Bruno, CA: #27 of 517 inventorsTop 6%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
David Okawa has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in October 2024. David Okawa ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list David Okawa in San Bruno, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2022.peak 52014: 2 patents20142017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 3 patents20202021: 4 patents20212022: 5 patents20222023: 4 patents20232024: 5 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1046761 Photovoltaic panel system Brian Wares, Tamir Lance 2024-10-15
12113142 Strings of solar cells having laser assisted metallization conductive contact structures and their methods of manufacture Pei Hsuan Lu, Tyler D. Newman, Paul Loscutoff, George G. Correos, Yafu Lin +11 more 2024-10-08
12080815 Laser assisted metallization process for solar cell stringing Pei Hsuan Lu, Benjamin Ian Hsia, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Lewis Abra, George G. Correos +5 more 2024-09-03
D1016736 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, Ryan Reagan, Brian Wares, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2024-03-05
11869998 Cross-tied photovoltaic array Tamir Lance, Hoi Hong Ng, Adam Rothschild Hoffman 2024-01-09
11824130 Solar cell having a plurality of sub-cells coupled by cell level interconnection Seung Bum Rim, Hung-Ming Wang, Lewis Abra 2023-11-21 $2,736,000
11664472 Laser assisted metallization process for solar cell stringing Pei Hsuan Lu, Benjamin Ian Hsia, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Lewis Abra, George G. Correos +5 more 2023-05-30 $36,310,000
11646387 Laser assisted metallization process for solar cell circuit formation Pei Hsuan Lu, Benjamin Ian Hsia, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Lewis Abra +5 more 2023-05-09 $34,354,000
11611006 Automated reel processes for producing solar modules and solar module reels Cameron Hosken, Thierry Nguyen, Tamir Lance, Jason Kalus 2023-03-21 $25,367,000
11527990 Aggregated photovoltaic panels Zachary S. Judkins, Tamir Lance, Tyler D. Newman, Thierry Nguyen, Ryan Reagan 2022-12-13 $62,883,000
11502213 Solar cell having a plurality of sub-cells coupled by cell level interconnection Seung Bum Rim, Hung-Ming Wang, Lewis Abra 2022-11-15 $22,380,000
11495698 Reconfigurable photovoltaic laminate(s) and photovoltaic panel(s) Zachary S. Judkins, Brian Wares, Tamir Lance, Patrick L. Chapman 2022-11-08 $60,233,000
11424714 Angled polymer solar modules Tamir Lance, Gabriela Bunea, Brian Wares, Zachary S. Judkins 2022-08-23 $34,173,000
D953972 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, Ryan Reagan, Brian Wares, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2022-06-07
D928079 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, Ryan Reagan, Brian Wares, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2021-08-17
D921573 Photovoltaic panel system Brian Wares, Tamir Lance 2021-06-08
11005416 Photovoltaic panel Brian Wares, Tamir Lance 2021-05-11 $38,328,000
10972046 Circuits and methods for controlling current in a parallel-connected array Jonathan Ehlmann, Lee Gorny, Thierry Nguyen 2021-04-06 $36,541,000
D904289 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, Ryan Reagan, Brian Wares, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2020-12-08
D879031 Textured solar panel Tamir Lance, Ryan Reagan, Brian Wares, Laurence Mackler, Hikaru Iwasaka +1 more 2020-03-24
10581372 Photovoltaic panel Brian Wares, Tamir Lance 2020-03-03 $25,582,000
9978896 Encapsulant bonding methods for photovoltaic module manufacturing Sunny Sethi 2018-05-22 $5,820,000
9842951 Encapsulants for photovoltaic modules Sunny Sethi 2017-12-12 $8,903,000
9735300 Thermal management Sunny Sethi 2017-08-15 $4,794,000
9660575 Solar cell stringer calibrator Sunny Sethi, Amiel Batayon 2017-05-23 $8,584,000