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First Solar, Inc. (FSLR)

Nasdaq: FSLR · Semiconductors & Related Devices · Phoenix, AZ · filing with the SEC since 2003
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US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

287 patents granted to the 3 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 First Solar, Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
287
273 utility, 14 design, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
10
Against 12 in 2024 and 8 in 2023
Applications published
340
14 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'11'12'13'14'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Semiconductors32
Surface technology, coating2
Materials, metallurgy1
Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
First Solar, Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in DE)
285 granted
275 published
First Solar, Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in DE)
0 granted
57 published
First Solar Malaysia SDN. BHD. a subsidiary
MY, as the owner printed on each patent
2 granted
8 published
Names not counted (1)
FIRST SOLAR, INC.
No country is printed for it. 0 granted and 3 published under it are not counted.
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jul 22, 202512,369,426Photovoltaic devices and method of makingSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Jul 8, 202512,356,755Photovoltaic devices and semiconductor layers with group v dopants and methods for forming the sameSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Jul 8, 202512,356,732Photovoltaic devices with conducting layer interconnectsSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Jun 17, 202512,336,321Photovoltaic devices with textured TCO layers, and methods of making TCO stacksSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Jun 3, 2025D1,077,608Offset driving bit for solar module mountingFirst Solar, Inc.
Mar 25, 202512,261,231Thin film stacks for group V doping, photovoltaic devices including the same, and methods for forming photovoltaic devices with thin film stacksSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Mar 11, 202512,249,664Transparent conducting layers and photovoltaic devices including the sameSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Feb 25, 202512,238,943Photovoltaic devices and method of makingSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Jan 21, 202512,206,037Photovoltaic device with transparent tunnel junctionSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Jan 7, 2025D1,056,823Rail stiffener for supporting a photovoltaic deviceFirst Solar, Inc.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Nov 27, 20252025/0361597SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VAPORIZATION AND VAPOR DISTRIBUTIONSurface technology, coatingFirst Solar, Inc.
Oct 2, 20252025/0311473Photovoltaic Devices with Textured TCO Layers, and Methods of Making TCO StacksSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Aug 21, 20252025/0267978Transparent Conducting Layers and Photovoltaic Devices Including the SameSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
May 29, 20252025/0176280PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND METHODS OF MAKINGSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
May 22, 20252025/0169199PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE WITH TRANSPARENT TUNNEL JUNCTIONSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
May 15, 20252025/0160041PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES AND METHOD OF MAKINGSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
May 15, 20252025/0160034Photovoltaic Devices and Method of MakingSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
May 1, 20252025/0142978Photovoltaic Devices Including An Interfacial LayerSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Apr 10, 20252025/0120219Buffer Layers for Photovoltaic Devices with Group V DopingSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
Mar 13, 20252025/0089380THIN FILM SOLAR MODULE AND PRODUCTION METHODSemiconductorsFirst Solar, Inc.
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Semiconductors 31 · Surface technology, coating 2.

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.

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