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Nils-Peter Harder — 22 Patents

SUSunpower: 11 patents #62 of 453Top 15%
TSTotal Marketing Services: 11 patents #5 of 293Top 2%
SFSaint-Gobain Glass France: 4 patents #202 of 1,055Top 20%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 3 patents #31 of 129Top 25%
TOTotalenergies Onetech: 1 patents #63 of 208Top 35%
San Jose, CA: #2,945 of 32,062 inventorsTop 10%
California: #25,951 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Nils-Peter Harder has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in January 2025. Nils-Peter Harder ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Nils-Peter Harder in San Jose, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12199201 Thermocompression bonding approaches for foil-based metallization of non-metal surfaces of solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, Gabriel Harley 2025-01-14
12149204 Heat sink and associated solar panel Camille Bainier 2024-11-19
12132126 Wire-based metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, Robert Woehl, Jens Dirk Moschner 2024-10-29
12074234 Solar cell with cell architecture designed for reduced carrier recombination 2024-08-27
11444214 Conductive strip based mask for metallization of semiconductor devices 2022-09-13
11424373 Thermocompression bonding approaches for foil-based metallization of non-metal surfaces of solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, Gabriel Harley 2022-08-23 $34,173,000
11271129 Surface treatment of solar cells 2022-03-08
11004987 Metallization of conductive wires for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Douglas Rose 2021-05-11 $38,328,000
10840394 Conductive strip based mask for metallization of semiconductor devices 2020-11-17
10672924 Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization for solar cells Robert Woehl, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Thomas Pass +2 more 2020-06-02 $11,741,000
10644170 Metallization of conductive wires for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Douglas Rose 2020-05-05 $22,245,000
10396235 Indentation approaches for foil-based metallization of solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell 2019-08-27 $8,868,000
10177260 Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization for solar cells Robert Woehl, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Thomas Pass +2 more 2019-01-08 $2,267,000
10084098 Metallization of conductive wires for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Douglas Rose 2018-09-25 $6,635,000
10032942 Solar cell having Ti- or Ta-containing thermal and diffusion barrier layer for foil-based metallization Taeseok Kim, Robert Woehl, Gabriel Harley, Jens Dirk Moschner, Matthieu Moors +1 more 2018-07-24 $4,414,000
9978892 Transparent glass pane provided with a surface structure Ulf Blieske, Dirk Neumann, Marcus Neander, Michele Schiavoni, Patrick Gayout 2018-05-22
9935213 Wire-based metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, Robert Woehl, Jens Dirk Moschner 2018-04-03 $15,204,000
9634178 Method of using laser welding to ohmic contact of metallic thermal and diffusion barrier layer for foil-based metallization of solar cells Taeseok Kim, Robert Woehl, Gabriel Harley, Jens Dirk Moschner, Matthieu Moors +1 more 2017-04-25 $3,744,000
9620655 Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization for solar cells Robert Woehl, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Thomas Pass +2 more 2017-04-11 $7,121,000
8866008 Transparent glass pane provided with a surface structure Ulf Blieske, Dirk Neumann, Marcus Neander, Michele Schiavoni, Patrick Gayout 2014-10-21
8174766 Textured plate comprising asymmetrical patterns Michele Schiavoni, Patrick Gayout, Ulf Blieske 2012-05-08
7994420 Photovoltaic solar cell and solar module Paul Mogensen, Ulf Blieske 2011-08-09