Y02E 10/50
Photovoltaic [pv] energy
Official title: Photovoltaic [PV] energy
Y02E10/50 (Photovoltaic [pv] energy) appears on 43,907 US grants and 59,855 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y02E- Granted patents
- 43,907
- Published applications
- 59,855
- Assignees
- 10,037
- Inventors
- 71,248
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 55 | 0 |
| 1977 | 76 | 0 |
| 1978 | 131 | 0 |
| 1979 | 136 | 0 |
| 1980 | 139 | 0 |
| 1981 | 132 | 0 |
| 1982 | 164 | 0 |
| 1983 | 164 | 0 |
| 1984 | 133 | 0 |
| 1985 | 180 | 0 |
| 1986 | 191 | 0 |
| 1987 | 201 | 0 |
| 1988 | 148 | 0 |
| 1989 | 156 | 0 |
| 1990 | 135 | 0 |
| 1991 | 168 | 0 |
| 1992 | 166 | 0 |
| 1993 | 171 | 0 |
| 1994 | 179 | 0 |
| 1995 | 192 | 0 |
| 1996 | 207 | 0 |
| 1997 | 188 | 0 |
| 1998 | 188 | 0 |
| 1999 | 221 | 0 |
| 2000 | 328 | 0 |
| 2001 | 365 | 130 |
| 2002 | 367 | 421 |
| 2003 | 368 | 465 |
| 2004 | 308 | 547 |
| 2005 | 275 | 763 |
| 2006 | 301 | 772 |
| 2007 | 344 | 981 |
| 2008 | 333 | 1408 |
| 2009 | 413 | 2058 |
| 2010 | 795 | 2985 |
| 2011 | 1167 | 3796 |
| 2012 | 1541 | 4046 |
| 2013 | 1853 | 3849 |
| 2014 | 2439 | 3986 |
| 2015 | 2646 | 3754 |
| 2016 | 2654 | 3469 |
| 2017 | 2709 | 3466 |
| 2018 | 2664 | 3473 |
| 2019 | 3064 | 3630 |
| 2020 | 2959 | 3343 |
| 2021 | 2640 | 3221 |
| 2022 | 2239 | 2336 |
| 2023 | 2450 | 2640 |
| 2024 | 2197 | 2072 |
| 2025 | 1894 | 1513 |
| 2026 | 773 | 731 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- Y02E 10/549Organic pv cells13,245
- Y02E 10/56Power conversion systems4,903
- Y02E 10/547Monocrystalline silicon pv cells4,101
- Y02E 10/52Pv systems with concentrators3,921
- Y02E 10/544Solar cells from group iii-v materials2,082
- Y02E 10/548Amorphous silicon pv cells1,746
- Y02E 10/542Dye sensitized solar cells1,646
- Y02E 10/541Cuinse2 material pv cells1,383
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for control of a medium voltage direct current solar plant6 Oct 2026US 12,756,200 B2Ge Grid Solutions LLC
- Article with transparent conductive layer and method of making the same6 Oct 2026US 12,757,521 B2Vitro Flat Glass LLC
- Solar cell employing phosphorescent materials6 Oct 2026US 12,757,522 B2Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Portable power case6 Oct 2026US 12,757,523 B2LAT Enterprises, Inc.
- Perovskite solar cell and fabrication method thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,757,560 B2Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Limited
- Light-emitting device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311621 A1Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd.
- Method for Separating a Layer of Solid Material from a Workpiece8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314345 A1Siltectra GmbH
- Docking connector platform for mobile electronic devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299643 A1Popsockets LLC
- Spring counter-balance assemblies and solar trackers incorporating springs to balance rotation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303010 A1Array Tech, Inc.
- Portable Power Case1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305017 A1LAT Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a MediPak Energy Systems
Most cited
By later US patents
- Aluminum thick film composition(s), electrode(s), semiconductor device(s), and methods of making thereof1,018US 8,192,651 B2E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Dupont (UK) Limited · 2012
- Methods and devices for fabricating and assembling printable semiconductor elements883US 7,622,367 B1The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2009
- Method of fabricating epitaxial structures827US 8,455,290 B2Masimo Semiconductor, Inc. · 2013
- Stretchable semiconductor elements and stretchable electrical circuits765US 7,557,367 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2009
- Method of fabricating bifacial tandem solar cells756US 8,852,994 B2Masimo Semiconductor, Inc. · 2014