Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
20 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
20
18 utility, 2 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
27
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
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Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
19 publishedAscent Solar Technologies, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
8 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 27, 2018 | 9,929,306 | Array of monolithically integrated thin film photovoltaic cells and associated methods | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Oct 3, 2017 | 9,780,242 | Multilayer thin-film back contact system for flexible photovoltaic devices on polymer substrates | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| May 16, 2017 | 9,653,635 | Flexible high-voltage adaptable current photovoltaic modules and associated methods | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| May 2, 2017 | 9,640,706 | Hybrid multi-junction photovoltaic cells and associated methods | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Apr 25, 2017 | 9,634,175 | Systems and methods for thermally managing high-temperature processes on temperature sensitive substrates | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Mar 21, 2017 | 9,601,650 | Machine and process for continuous, sequential, deposition of semiconductor solar absorbers having variable semiconductor composition deposited in multiple sublayers | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Mar 14, 2017 | D781,228 | Pocket-sized photovoltaic-based fully integrated portable power system | | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Jan 3, 2017 | 9,538,671 | System for housing and powering a battery-operated device and associated methods | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| May 24, 2016 | 9,349,905 | Hybrid multi-junction photovoltaic cells and associated methods | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Dec 22, 2015 | 9,219,179 | Multilayer thin-film back contact system for flexible photovoltaic devices on polymer substrates | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Mar 12, 2020 | 2020/0082995 | CHALCOPYRITE-PEROVSKITE PN-JUNCTION THIN-FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Jul 26, 2018 | 2018/0208321 | PHOTOVOLTAIC-BASED INTEGRATED POWER SYSTEMS FOR AIRBORNE VEHICLES | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Jul 5, 2018 | 2018/0190847 | NON-ORTHOGONALLY PATTERNED MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED THIN FILM PV | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Jun 21, 2018 | 2018/0175234 | Array Of Monolithically Integrated Thin Film Photovoltaic Cells And Associated Methods | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Nov 23, 2017 | 2017/0338359 | SUBTRACTIVE HINGE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Aug 17, 2017 | 2017/0236710 | MACHINE AND PROCESS FOR CONTINUOUS, SEQUENTIAL, DEPOSITION OF SEMICONDUCTOR SOLAR ABSORBERS HAVING VARIABLE SEMICONDUCTOR COMPOSITION DEPOSITED IN MULTIPLE SUBLAYERS | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Mar 2, 2017 | 2017/0062648 | HYBRID MULTI-JUNCTION PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. · patent 9,640,706 granted from it |
| Dec 29, 2016 | 2016/0380123 | MULTILAYER THIN-FILM BACK CONTACT SYSTEM FOR FLEXIBLE PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES ON POLYMER SUBSTRATES | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Oct 6, 2016 | 2016/0294191 | PHOTOVOLTAIC-BASED FULLY INTEGRATED PORTABLE POWER MANAGEMENT AND NETWORKING SYSTEM | Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
| Aug 4, 2016 | 2016/0225928 | SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES FOR BIFACIAL COLLECTION AND TANDEM JUNCTIONS USING A THIN-FILM PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE | Semiconductors | Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. |
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.