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Yafu Lin — 36 Patents

SUSunpower: 21 patents #23 of 453Top 6%

MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 15 patents #3 of 129Top 3%

San Jose, CA: #1,624 of 32,062 inventorsTop 6%

California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%

Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%

36 Patents All Time

Yafu Lin has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sunpower. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in August 2025. Yafu Lin ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Yafu Lin in San Jose, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12396271	Ribbons for use in shingled solar cells	Mingchong Dai, Qiang Zhang, Nicholas Eli Berry, Jianfang Si, Hongshuai Xu	2025-08-19
12328954	Shingled solar module with ribbon interconnect	Jianfang Si	2025-06-10
12283641	Protected interconnects for low stress solar cell shingling and improved aesthetics	Nicholas Eli Berry, Mingchong Dai, Jianfang Si, Zhaoji Li, Yu-Chou SHIH +3 more	2025-04-22
12176456	Solar cell wafer wire bonding system	Vergil Rodriguez Sandoval, Emmanuel Chua Abas	2024-12-24
12113142	Strings of solar cells having laser assisted metallization conductive contact structures and their methods of manufacture	Pei Hsuan Lu, Tyler D. Newman, Paul Loscutoff, George G. Correos, Andrea R. Bowring +11 more	2024-10-08
12094991	Hybrid dense solar cells and interconnects for solar modules and related methods of manufacture	—	2024-09-17
12074237	Photovoltaic laminate comprising single polymer composite	Ruihua Li	2024-08-27
12027636	Protection coating for solar cell wafers	Ruihua Li	2024-07-02
11949026	Shingled solar cell module	Ratson Morad, Gilad Almogy, Itai Suez, Jean Hummel, Nathan Beckett +5 more	2024-04-02
11942561	Shingled solar cell module	Ratson Morad, Gilad Almogy, Itai Suez, Jean Hummel, Nathan Beckett +5 more	2024-03-26
11923473	Shingled solar module with ribbon interconnect	Jianfang Si	2024-03-05
11894485	Solar cell wafer wire bonding method	Vergil Rodriguez Sandoval, Emmanuel Chua Abas	2024-02-06
11804557	Solar panel	Benjamin Francois	2023-10-31	$2,237,000
D1002523	Solar cell wafer	—	2023-10-24
11764315	Solar cell separation with edge coating	Jianfang Si, Nicholas Eli Berry	2023-09-19	$14,680,000
D978781	Solar cell wafer	—	2023-02-21
11515441	Solar cells having junctions retracted from cleaved edges	David Jacob	2022-11-29	$32,869,000
11482639	Shingled solar cell module	Ratson Morad, Gilad Almogy, Itai Suez, Jean Hummel, Nathan Beckett +5 more	2022-10-25	$47,167,000
D958730	Solar panel	Richard Perkins, Jianfang Si	2022-07-26
D954639	Solar panel	Jianfang Si	2022-06-14
D937193	Solar panel	Richard Perkins, Jianfang Si	2021-11-30
11165387	Current cyclical testing for PV electrical connections	Ryan Reagan, Itai Suez, Katherine Han, Hai-Yue Han	2021-11-02	$111,673,000
11139403	Solar panel	Benjamin Francois	2021-10-05	$40,936,000
11038072	Shingled solar cell module	Ratson Morad, Gilad Almogy, Itai Suez, Jean Hummel, Nathan Beckett +5 more	2021-06-15	$93,730,000
10861999	Shingled solar cell module comprising hidden tap interconnects	Ratson Morad, Gilad Almogy, Itai Suez, Jean Hummel, Nathan Beckett +5 more	2020-12-08	$65,971,000