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Peter John Cousins — 85 Patents

SUSunpower: 79 patents #2 of 453Top 1%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 6 patents #18 of 129Top 15%
Menlo Park, CA: #46 of 3,774 inventorsTop 2%
California: #3,091 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #20,018 of 4,157,543Top 1%
85 Patents All Time
Peter John Cousins has been granted 85 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in January 2025. Peter John Cousins ranks #20,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.48%). Patent records list Peter John Cousins in Menlo Park, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2014.peak 122010: 6 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 7 patents20122013: 9 patents2014: 12 patents20142015: 8 patents2016: 9 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 5 patents20182019: 5 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 4 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 3 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 85 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12191404 Solar cell having conductive contacts in alignment with recast signatures Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith 2025-01-07
12166139 Solar cell with wraparound finger Matthieu Minault Reich, Lewis Abra, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Andrea R. Bowring, Benjamin Francois +3 more 2024-12-10
12009449 Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, Michael C. Johnson, David D. Smith, Yu-Chen Shen +1 more 2024-06-11
12009448 Front contact solar cell with formed electrically conducting layers on the front side and backside 2024-06-11
11811360 High voltage solar modules Gopal Garg, Seung Bum Rim 2023-11-07 $6,117,000
11637213 Hybrid polysilicon heterojunction back contact cell David D. Smith, Seung Bum Rim 2023-04-25 $31,132,000
11605750 Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, Michael C. Johnson, David D. Smith, Yu-Chen Shen +1 more 2023-03-14 $34,238,000
11437528 Process and structures for fabrication of solar cells Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith, Tim Dennis, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim 2022-09-06 $24,357,000
11398576 Solar cell having a plurality of sub-cells coupled by a metallization structure Gabriel Harley, Michael Morse 2022-07-26 $50,069,000
11195964 Voltage breakdown device for solar cells 2021-12-07 $38,789,000
11152518 Solar cell having a plurality of conductive contacts Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith 2021-10-19 $97,816,000
11107935 Solar cell with reduced base diffusion area Denis De Ceuster 2021-08-31 $75,779,000
10957809 Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, Michael C. Johnson, David D. Smith, Yu-Chen Shen +1 more 2021-03-23 $59,432,000
10840395 Deposition approaches for emitter layers of solar cells Michael C. Johnson, Taiqing Qiu, David D. Smith, Staffan Westerberg 2020-11-17 $32,547,000
10608126 Laser process and corresponding structures for forming contact holes of solar cells Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith, Tim Dennis, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim 2020-03-31 $7,943,000
10608133 Solar cell having a plurality of sub-cells coupled by a metallization structure Gabriel Harley, Michael Morse 2020-03-31 $7,943,000
10573764 Solar cell with reduced base diffusion area Denis De Ceuster 2020-02-25 $12,658,000
10490685 Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, Michael C. Johnson, David D. Smith, Yu-Chen Shen +1 more 2019-11-26 $19,373,000
10475945 Front contact solar cell with formed electrically conducting layers on the front side and backside 2019-11-12 $5,766,000
10217880 Voltage breakdown device for solar cells 2019-02-26 $2,760,000
10211349 Solar cell contact formation using laser ablation Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith 2019-02-19 $5,540,000
10170657 Solar cell having an emitter region with wide bandgap semiconductor material Richard M. Swanson, Marius M. Bunea, Michael C. Johnson, David D. Smith, Yu-Chen Shen +1 more 2019-01-01
10096728 Firing metal for solar cells Paul Loscutoff, Taeseok Kim, Michael Morse, Kevin Mukai 2018-10-09 $12,124,000
10079319 Solar cell fabrication using laser patterning of ion-implanted etch-resistant layers and the resulting solar cells Staffan Westerberg, Alejandro X. Levander 2018-09-18 $14,227,000
9997652 Deposition approaches for emitter layers of solar cells Michael C. Johnson, Taiqing Qiu, David D. Smith, Staffan Westerberg 2018-06-12 $5,233,000