H10F 77/42
Directly associated or integrated with photovoltaic cells
Official title: directly associated or integrated with photovoltaic cells, e.g. light-reflecting means or light-concentrating means
H10F77/42 (Directly associated or integrated with photovoltaic cells) appears on 3,022 US grants and 4,806 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 3,022
- Published applications
- 4,806
- Assignees
- 1,601
- Inventors
- 7,652
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 8 | 0 |
| 1977 | 14 | 0 |
| 1978 | 19 | 0 |
| 1979 | 40 | 0 |
| 1980 | 26 | 0 |
| 1981 | 25 | 0 |
| 1982 | 23 | 0 |
| 1983 | 30 | 0 |
| 1984 | 15 | 0 |
| 1985 | 19 | 0 |
| 1986 | 12 | 0 |
| 1987 | 25 | 0 |
| 1988 | 9 | 0 |
| 1989 | 12 | 0 |
| 1990 | 10 | 0 |
| 1991 | 12 | 0 |
| 1992 | 23 | 0 |
| 1993 | 15 | 0 |
| 1994 | 15 | 0 |
| 1995 | 25 | 0 |
| 1996 | 28 | 0 |
| 1997 | 17 | 0 |
| 1998 | 24 | 0 |
| 1999 | 34 | 0 |
| 2000 | 46 | 0 |
| 2001 | 31 | 12 |
| 2002 | 25 | 24 |
| 2003 | 28 | 31 |
| 2004 | 19 | 41 |
| 2005 | 15 | 41 |
| 2006 | 12 | 57 |
| 2007 | 21 | 84 |
| 2008 | 18 | 162 |
| 2009 | 18 | 290 |
| 2010 | 46 | 387 |
| 2011 | 96 | 440 |
| 2012 | 130 | 426 |
| 2013 | 133 | 374 |
| 2014 | 223 | 354 |
| 2015 | 193 | 339 |
| 2016 | 217 | 251 |
| 2017 | 180 | 224 |
| 2018 | 176 | 202 |
| 2019 | 146 | 180 |
| 2020 | 151 | 184 |
| 2021 | 136 | 172 |
| 2022 | 112 | 148 |
| 2023 | 103 | 125 |
| 2024 | 115 | 115 |
| 2025 | 99 | 91 |
| 2026 | 53 | 52 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Solar cell employing phosphorescent materials6 Oct 2026US 12,757,522 B2Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Multijunction metamorphic solar cells29 Sep 2026US 12,751,095 B2SolAero Technologies Corp.
- Antireflective coating polymeric film for photoelectric device and photoelectric device comprising the same22 Sep 2026US 12,742,073 B2Unist (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
- Photovoltaic antiglare panel assembly, photovoltaic power generation system, and photovoltaic subgrade system15 Sep 2026US 12,740,181 B2Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Photovoltaic cell packaging structure and manufacturing method thereof1 Sep 2026US 12,727,257 B2Nanobit Tech. Co., Ltd.
- Light Management System with Distributed Light Input Ports and Light-Converting Layer24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293368 A1
- Core-shell type upconverting microparticle, upconverting micro precursor particle, sensitizing core-shell type upconverting microparticle, tio2-coated core-shell type upconverting microparticle, near-infrared detector, photoelectric conversion element, and method of manufacturing core-shell type upconverting microparticle17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275190 A1Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Photovoltaic cell unit and use thereof3 Sep 2026US 2026/0262301 A1Changzhou Shichuang Energy Co., Ltd
- Systems and methods for multisource thermophotovoltaic energy conversion27 Aug 2026US 2026/0254397 A1
- Bifacial reflective gap film and bifacial photovoltaic module13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239772 A1Trina Solar Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly564US 7,972,875 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2011
- Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly346US 8,722,458 B2Semprius, Inc. · 2014
- Relective polymeric body228US 5,122,905 AThe Dow Chemical Company · 1992
- Variable aperture, variable flux density, aerospace solar collector220US 4,888,063 A1989
- Photovoltaic shingle system196US 5,575,861 AUnited Solar Systems Corporation · 1996