H02S 50/10
Testing of pv devices
Official title: Testing of PV devices, e.g. of PV modules or single PV cells (testing of semiconductor devices during manufacturing {H10P74/00})
H02S50/10 (Testing of pv devices) appears on 1,122 US grants and 1,559 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H02S- Granted patents
- 1,122
- Published applications
- 1,559
- Assignees
- 710
- Inventors
- 3,071
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 82 | 87 |
| 2026 | 57 | 63 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for identifying defective solar panels and to quantify energy loss6 Oct 2026US 12,756,358 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Method for repairing and/or optimizing a solar module6 Oct 2026US 12,756,359 B2Hanwha Q Cells GmbH
- Aerodynamic damping stow for solar tracker systems29 Sep 2026US 12,750,007 B2FCX Solar LLC
- Power supply system and IV curve scanning method for power supply system22 Sep 2026US 12,742,827 B2Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Photovoltaic system and circuit protection method for photovoltaic system22 Sep 2026US 12,744,494 B2Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Solar panel efficiency detection and improvement8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312538 A1Itron, Inc.
- Curve tracers8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312539 A1Fluke Corporation
- Performance monitoring of photovoltaic power generation using a reference power prediction model1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303017 A1Tata Consultancy Services Limited
- Systems and methods for estimating electric parameters of solar modules of a solar array24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291432 A1Morgan Solar Inc.
- Robotic thermal inspection of photovoltaic modules24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291433 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Solar cell module, building material with solar cell module, solar cell module framing structure, and solar power generation apparatus339US 6,545,211 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003
- Photovoltaic module, photovoltaic module array, photovoltaic system, and method of detecting failure of photovoltaic module262US 6,515,215 B1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003
- Method of controlling photovoltaic power generation system252US 7,042,195 B2DAIHEN Corporation · 2006
- Localized power point optimizer for solar cell installations233US 8,158,877 B2SunPower Corporation · 2012
- Device for testing solar home systems229US 6,351,130 B1Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Foschung E.V. · 2002