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Robert Woehl — 11 Patents

SUSunpower: 9 patents #76 of 453Top 20%
TSTotal Marketing Services: 9 patents #11 of 293Top 4%
Fraunhofer: 1 patents #1,798 of 4,748Top 40%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 1 patents #70 of 129Top 55%
San Jose, CA: #5,902 of 32,062 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Robert Woehl has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in October 2024. Robert Woehl ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Robert Woehl in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2018.peak 42014: 1 patents20142017: 3 patents20172018: 4 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12132126 Wire-based metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, Jens Dirk Moschner, Nils-Peter Harder 2024-10-29
10672924 Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Thomas Pass, Benjamin Ian Hsia +2 more 2020-06-02 $11,741,000
10177260 Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Thomas Pass, Benjamin Ian Hsia +2 more 2019-01-08 $2,267,000
10164131 Multi-layer sputtered metal seed for solar cell conductive contact Michael Cudzinovic, Amjad Deyine 2018-12-25
10032942 Solar cell having Ti- or Ta-containing thermal and diffusion barrier layer for foil-based metallization Taeseok Kim, Gabriel Harley, Nils-Peter Harder, Jens Dirk Moschner, Matthieu Moors +1 more 2018-07-24 $4,414,000
10030303 Sputter tool Yu-Chen Shen, Taiqing Qiu, Kieran Mark Tracy, Mukul Agrawal 2018-07-24 $4,414,000
9935213 Wire-based metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, Jens Dirk Moschner, Nils-Peter Harder 2018-04-03 $15,204,000
9768327 Etching techniques for semiconductor devices David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Paul Loscutoff 2017-09-19 $15,458,000
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, Gabriel Harley, Nils-Peter Harder, 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 Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Thomas Pass, Benjamin Ian Hsia +2 more 2017-04-11 $7,121,000
8748310 Method for producing a metal contact structure of a photovoltaic solar cell Daniel Biro, Benjamin Thaidigsmann, Florian Clement, Edgar-Allan Wotke 2014-06-10