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Thomas Pass — 53 Patents

SUSunpower: 43 patents #6 of 453Top 2%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 5 patents #22 of 129Top 20%
STSouthwall Technologies: 5 patents #6 of 65Top 10%
TSTotal Marketing Services: 5 patents #23 of 293Top 8%
San Jose, CA: #881 of 32,062 inventorsTop 3%
California: #7,278 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #48,528 of 4,157,543Top 2%
53 Patents All Time
Thomas Pass has been granted 53 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in September 2025. Thomas Pass ranks #48,528 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Thomas Pass in San Jose, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 53 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12426401 One-dimensional metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Lewis Abra, Taeseok Kim, Matthieu Moors +2 more 2025-09-23
12009438 Foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization of solar cells Gabriel Harley 2024-06-11
11923474 Solar cell interconnection Gabriel Harley, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Richard Hamilton Sewell 2024-03-05
11862745 One-dimensional metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Lewis Abra, Taeseok Kim, Matthieu Moors +2 more 2024-01-02
11784270 Solar module interconnect 2023-10-10 $5,226,000
11305378 Wafer alignment with restricted visual access 2022-04-19 $49,637,000
10930804 Metallization of solar cells using metal foils 2021-02-23 $124,961,000
10737475 Thermo-compression bonding tool with high temperature elastic element Richard Hamilton Sewell 2020-08-11 $17,976,000
10672924 Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization for solar cells Robert Woehl, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Benjamin Ian Hsia +2 more 2020-06-02 $11,741,000
10636924 Solar module interconnect 2020-04-28 $21,998,000
10543564 Wafer alignment with restricted visual access 2020-01-28 $21,613,000
10535790 One-dimensional metallization for solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Lewis Abra, Taeseok Kim, Matthieu Moors +2 more 2020-01-14 $5,452,000
10199521 Thick damage buffer for foil-based metallization of solar cells David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Gabriel Harley 2019-02-05 $9,910,000
10177260 Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization for solar cells Robert Woehl, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Benjamin Ian Hsia +2 more 2019-01-08 $2,267,000
10153384 Solderable contact regions 2018-12-11 $10,999,000
9997651 Damage buffer for solar cell metallization 2018-06-12 $5,233,000
9944055 Thermo-compression bonding tool with high temperature elastic element Richard Hamilton Sewell 2018-04-17 $4,628,000
9865753 Metallization of solar cells using metal foils 2018-01-09 $6,160,000
9865759 Solar cell interconnection Gabriel Harley, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Richard Hamilton Sewell 2018-01-09 $6,160,000
9831356 Foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization of solar cells Gabriel Harley 2017-11-28 $3,988,000
9796045 Wafer alignment with restricted visual access 2017-10-24 $6,782,000
9735308 Foil-based metallization of solar cells using removable protection layer 2017-08-15 $4,794,000
9722105 Conversion of metal seed layer for buffer material Matthieu Moors 2017-08-01 $6,976,000
9620655 Laser foil trim approaches for foil-based metallization for solar cells Robert Woehl, Richard Hamilton Sewell, Mohamed A. Elbandrawy, Taeseok Kim, Benjamin Ian Hsia +2 more 2017-04-11 $7,121,000
9559233 Solar cell interconnection Gabriel Harley, David Fredric Joel Kavulak, Richard Hamilton Sewell 2017-01-31 $2,315,000