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Tim Dennis — 24 Patents

SUSunpower: 21 patents #23 of 453Top 6%
UAUnder Armour: 2 patents #149 of 326Top 50%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 1 patents #70 of 129Top 55%
Canton, TX: #1 of 22 inventorsTop 5%
Texas: #5,446 of 125,132 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Tim Dennis has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in June 2024. Tim Dennis ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Tim Dennis in Canton, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
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
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, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim, Peter John Cousins 2022-09-06 $24,357,000
11251315 Solar cells with improved lifetime, passivation and/or efficiency David D. Smith, Russelle De Jesus Tabajonda 2022-02-15 $45,173,000
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
10658525 Solar cells with improved lifetime, passivation and/or efficiency David D. Smith, Russelle De Jesus Tabajonda 2020-05-19 $21,829,000
10629760 Method of fabricating an emitter region of a solar cell David D. Smith, Helen Liu, Jane Manning, Hsin-Chiao Luan, Ann Waldhauer +3 more 2020-04-21 $6,858,000
10608126 Laser process and corresponding structures for forming contact holes of solar cells Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim, Peter John Cousins 2020-03-31 $7,943,000
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
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
10170642 Solar cells with improved lifetime, passivation and/or efficiency David D. Smith, Russelle De Jesus Tabajonda 2019-01-01
9899542 Solar cells with improved lifetime, passivation and/or efficiency David D. Smith, Russelle De Jesus Tabajonda 2018-02-20 $7,089,000
9831359 Laser process and corresponding structures for fabrication of solar cells with shunt prevention dielectric Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim, Peter John Cousins 2017-11-28 $3,988,000
9537030 Method of fabricating a solar cell with a tunnel dielectric layer Scott Harrington, Jane Manning, David D. Smith, Ann Waldhauer 2017-01-03 $3,590,000
9520507 Solar cells with improved lifetime, passivation and/or efficiency David D. Smith, Russelle De Jesus Tabajonda 2016-12-13 $7,570,000
9263602 Laser processing of solar cells with anti-reflective coating Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim, Peter John Cousins 2016-02-16 $5,663,000
9219173 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 2015-12-22 $22,780,000
9112066 Method of fabricating a solar cell with a tunnel dielectric layer Scott Harrington, Jane Manning, David D. Smith, Ann Waldhauer 2015-08-18 $14,973,000
9054255 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 2015-06-09 $38,772,000
8709851 Method of fabricating a solar cell with a tunnel dielectric layer Scott Harrington, Jane Manning, David D. Smith, Ann Waldhauer 2014-04-29 $30,624,000
8586403 Process and structures for fabrication of solar cells with laser ablation steps to form contact holes Gabriel Harley, David D. Smith, Ann Waldhauer, Taeseok Kim, Peter John Cousins 2013-11-19 $20,143,000
8334161 Method of fabricating a solar cell with a tunnel dielectric layer Scott Harrington, Jane Manning, David D. Smith, Ann Waldhauer 2012-12-18 $4,575,000
8261372 Golf glove John J. Drab, Raphael Peck 2012-09-11 $35,837,000
D594159 Golf glove John J. Drab, Raphael Peck 2009-06-09