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John Viatella — 14 Patents

SUSunpower: 7 patents #97 of 453Top 25%
CYCymer: 5 patents #91 of 339Top 30%
TSTotal Marketing Services: 3 patents #52 of 293Top 20%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 1 patents #70 of 129Top 55%
Kla-Tencor: 1 patents #1,787 of 2,049Top 90%
San Mateo, CA: #468 of 3,727 inventorsTop 15%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
John Viatella has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in November 2023. John Viatella ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list John Viatella in San Mateo, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2008.peak 22007: 1 patents20072008: 2 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11817512 Laser beam shaping for foil-based metallization of solar cells Taeseok Kim, Gabriel Harley, Périne Jaffrennou 2023-11-14 $5,762,000
11374137 Laser beam shaping for foil-based metallization of solar cells Taeseok Kim, Gabriel Harley, Périne Jaffrennou 2022-06-28 $22,202,000
10535785 Laser beam shaping for foil-based metallization of solar cells Taeseok Kim, Gabriel Harley, Périne Jaffrennou 2020-01-14 $5,452,000
10359377 Beam shaping slit for small spot size transmission small angle X-ray scatterometry Alexander N. Bykanov, Nikolay Artemiev, Joseph A. Di Regolo 2019-07-23
9620661 Laser beam shaping for foil-based metallization of solar cells Taeseok Kim, Gabriel Harley, Périne Jaffrennou 2017-04-11 $7,121,000
9527164 High throughput laser processing Gabriel Harley, Thomas Pass, Peter John Cousins 2016-12-27 $4,652,000
8982922 Very high power laser chamber optical improvements Hong Ye, Alex Ershov, Rajasekhar Rao, Daniel J. W. Brown, Slava Rokitski +5 more 2015-03-17
8859933 High throughput solar cell ablation system Gabriel Harley, Thomas Pass, Peter John Cousins 2014-10-14 $10,192,000
8513045 Laser system with multiple laser pulses for fabrication of solar cells Gabriel Harley, Thomas Pass 2013-08-20 $55,055,000
8284815 Very high power laser chamber optical improvements Hong Ye, Alex Ershov, Rajasekhar Rao, Daniel J. W. Brown, Slava Rokitski +5 more 2012-10-09 $4,851,000
8263899 High throughput solar cell ablation system Gabriel Harley, Thomas Pass, Peter John Cousins 2012-09-11 $9,079,000
7402825 LPP EUV drive laser input system Rodney D. Simmons, Jerzy Hoffman, R. Kyle Webb, Alexander N. Bykanov, Oleh Khodykin 2008-07-22 $9,166,000
7323703 EUV light source I. Roger Oliver, William N. Partlo, Igor V. Fomenkov, Alexander I. Ershov, Norbert Bowering +1 more 2008-01-29 $5,614,000
7164144 EUV light source William N. Partlo, Norbert Bowering, Alexander I. Ershov, Igor V. Fomenkov, David W. Myers +2 more 2007-01-16 $14,761,000